I thought it was in your best interest for me to inform you of recent developments with the ICO...
Whilst I was ambushed in Liberty recently, I was hailed by an ICO vessel. After some verbal saprring, I found out that the reason that he attempted to deal with you was that 11 ICO personnel had been captured on Planet Gammu in Omicron Kappa recently, and they wished to negotiate their safe return from the Corsairs. Understandable, I guess.
However... he failed to realise that those that had captured those 11 men were not Corsairs. They were marines based off of the RACS-Ho.Chi.Minh, commanded by the SCRA's Captain Richthofen. In fact, the ICO men remain in custody, as they were captured by our men after openly claiming to have stolen technology from the Corsairs.
Now... it appears that the Brotherhood were negotiating with prisoners that were (and still are) in our custody, and take offence when we say they were going about it in a poor fashion. Hmph.