Years of stories that depict pirates as villainous brutes have caused some serious reputation damage to the pirating business as a whole. So when a call came from The New York Times, pirate spokesperson Sugule Ali stepped up to offer a 45-minute interview and a never-before-seen level of transparency from the pirate community.
Speaking via satellite phone from a Ukrainian cargo ship that he and his colleagues hijacked off the coast of Somalia, Ali made it clear that his group was ...