Answer:
The US paid certain “contributions”, not taxes, (but you might call those contributions coming from US taxes anyway) to the Barbary States, a string of North African ports, such as Oran, Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, mainly dominated by pirates, aka Barbary corsaires, that were nominally subdued to Ottoman Empire.
Explanation:
You cannot take a person belongings away with out there given processes
