Interesting subject, but I gotta be dubious about those numbers, Keith. One to two million? Wouldn't that be most of the population? If it was that regular, it would have gotten a lot more press. Say, a minimum of ten thousand raids if they got a hundred people each time...we hear a lot more about Viking raids ten centuries earlier and I bet they didn't have anything like those numbers. Besides, it seems clear that as far as the Barbary pirates went, the UK & Ireland area was not where they did most of their plundering...