These maps show how devastating Somali pirates used to be

AP Somali pirates are in the news againfor a few reasons.There was the release of 26 hostages after 5 years, along with warnings thatpirates could make a resurgenceand thefrightening prospect of piracy by Islamic extremists who just seized a town on the Gulf of Aden. We figured it was a good time to look back on how Somali pirates disrupted worldshipping a few yearsago, and how they almost disappeared. Piracy in the Western Indian Ocean had an economic cost of $7 billion in 2010, according tonon...