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What if the US reinstated privateers and letters of marque after the 9/11 attacks?

It would cause a lot of butterflies, especially when you think of the problems the military have faced with fighting a fanatic almost unidentifiable (untill too late) enemy.

My first thought is along the lines of a mob war between the arms dealers who will supply anyone (incl AQ), and arms dealers/manufactures who want to claim the 'bounty and prize money' for 'actions against AQ and their supporters'. And at the same time groups of international mercenaries scramble to get privateer status, even attacking each other and denouncing them as 'AQ sympathisers'.


I am just kicking it around, and want to hear how the idea sounds to others
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