Abduhl Wal-i-Musi

A Somali man held in New York on piracy charges was accused Tuesday in two more attacks against ships in the Indian Ocean.Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse was brought to the United States last year after being captured at the scene of a dramatic clash between the US navy and Somali pirates holding hostage a US merchant captain.In a new indictment, prosecutors say Muse was not only responsible for the attack on the Maersk Alabama, but for earlier raids on two other ships.Muse pleaded not guilty in May...Read Full Story

Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse grew up destitute in Somalia, the oldest of 12 kids and the product of a violent, lawless nation where his parents scraped together a few dollars a day selling milk and tending to a small herd of camels, cows and goats.For entertainment, he would frequent a run-down outdoor cinema and watch Bollywood movies in a town with no running water or electricity. He eventually joined a gang of pirates who laid siege to an American cargo ship and took the captain hostage before...Read Full Story

A young Somali captured in connection with the hijacking of a Spanish trawler and brought to Madrid has slipped into legal limbo, with courts unable to decide if he is an adult or a minor or who should prosecute him, an official said Wednesday.For now the suspect has been transferred first from a prison to a home for troubled youths, then to a formal juvenile detention center, while the courts try to figure out how to proceed, the official of the National Court said on condition of anonymity...Read Full Story

At home in central Somalia, Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse frequented a dusty, outdoor cinema after school, watched Bollywood films dubbed into his native Somali and, his mother says, "was wise beyond his age."Now Muse — the sole surviving Somali pirate from the hostage-taking of an American ship captain — is a world away in New York City to face what are believed to be the first piracy charges in the United States in more than a century. He smiled but said nothing Tuesday as he was led into a...Read Full Story

The lone surviving pirate captured by US special forces in a high-seas drama off Somalia is due to appear in court on Tuesday in what is believed to be the first US piracy charges for more than a century.Officials said Abdi Wali Muse, who arrived in the city late Monday, would appear at a New York court at around 15:00 pm (1900 GMT).A smiling Muse was Monday led by federal agents past a bank of media cameras and into New York's Federal Plaza in a driving rainstorm after his arrival.His left...Read Full Story

A Somali teenager captured by US forces in a high-seas drama and brought to New York has been ordered to stand trial here as an adult on piracy charges that could put him in jail for life.Abdi Wali Abdi Khadir Muse, wearing a blue T-shirt and with head lowered as he entered federal court Tuesday with an interpreter, faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted on the most serious charge of piracy, prosecutors said.Judge Andrew Peck ruled the young Somali would be tried as an...Read Full Story

The lone surviving pirate caught by US forces in a high-seas drama off Somalia is due to appear in court on Tuesday in what is believed to be the first US piracy charge for more than a century.Abdi Wali Muse arrived in the city late on Monday. US media said the suspected pirate is expected in court on Tuesday but the prosecutor's office told AFP it was "neither confirming nor denying" the reports.A smiling Muse was Monday led by federal agents past a bank of media cameras and into New York's...Read Full Story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Somali teenager accused of holding a U.S. ship captain hostage in the Indian Ocean after an attempted hijacking pleaded not guilty on Thursday to 10 charges, including piracy and kidnapping.Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, the sole surviving accused pirate from the foiled bid to hijack the huge U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama, entered his plea at the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.The slightly built Muse, who prosecutors said acted as the leader of the pirates, appeared...Read Full Story

A Somali teenager caught by US forces who freed an American merchant ship captain from pirates last month pleaded innocent to piracy, hijacking and kidnapping Thursday in a New York court.The suspect, Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, stands charged in a grand jury indictment with "piracy as defined by the law of nations" in international waters off Somalia."We plead not guilty on all counts," his attorney, Phil Weinstein, told the court presided over by federal judge Loretta Preska. Muse's next...Read Full Story

The sole survivor of a pirate attack on an American cargo ship off the Somali coast was charged as an adult Tuesday with piracy after a prosecutor said he gave wildly varying ages for himself but finally admitted he was 18.U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck said Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse could be treated as an adult in U.S. courts after a closed hearing during which he said Muse's father gave conflicting testimony about the ages of his children.Muse was charged with several counts, including...Read Full Story