The charges to which MUSÉ pleaded guilty, and their maximum penalties, are as follows:Ĭount 2 – Seizing a ship by force – Maximum prison term: 20 yearsĬount 3 – Conspiracy to seize a ship by force – Maximum prison term: 20 yearsĬount 5 – Hostage taking – Maximum prison term: LifeĬount 6 – Conspiracy to commit hostage taking – Maximum prison term: LifeĬount 8 – Kidnapping – Maximum prison term: LifeĬount 9 – Conspiracy to commit kidnapping – Maximum prison term: Life On April 12, 2009, MUSÉ was taken into custody by the United States Navy. On the USS Bainbridge, MUSÉ continued to demand for himself and the other pirates safe passage from the scene in exchange for the captain’s release. On April 12, 2009, MUSÉ requested and was permitted to board the USS Bainbridge, a United States Navy missile destroyer that had arrived on the scene. During this period, in radio communications between the pirates and the United States Navy, the pirates threatened to kill the captain if they were not provided with safe passage away from the scene. MUSÉ and the other three pirates then held the captain hostage on the life boat from April 8 to April 12, 2009. Several hours after boarding the Maersk Alabama, the pirates took a life boat from the ship, on which they held the captain of the ship as a hostage. Once on board the Maersk Alabama, MUSÉ, who conducted himself as the leader of the pirates, demanded, among other things, that the ship be stopped. Each of the four pirates who boarded the Maersk Alabama, including MUSÉ, was armed with a gun. In April 2009, MUSÉ and three other pirates left Ship-2, and boarded the Maersk Alabama after shooting at the ship from their own boat. Beginning in or about April 2009, MUSÉ and others held hostage, on board Ship-2, both the captain and the crew of Ship-1 and the captain and the crew of Ship-2. After Ship-1 and the Skiff arrived in the vicinity of Ship-2, the captain of Ship- 1 was ordered to pull Ship-1 up to Ship-2. When the Skiff returned to Ship-1, Ship-1 and the Skiff were made to rendezvous with another ship (“Ship-2″) that was then navigating in the Indian Ocean. In April 2009, MUSÉ and others left Ship-1 on a small boat (“Skiff”). MUSÉ placed the IED in the vicinity of the hostage, and indicated that if the authorities came the IED would explode and the hostage would be killed. In addition, MUSÉ showed one of the hostages what appeared to be an improvised explosive device (“IED”). While on board Ship-1, MUSÉ pointed a gun at one of the Ship-1 hostages and threatened to kill him. After boarding Ship-1, MUSÉ and others threatened the captain of Ship-1 with a firearm seized control of Ship-1 and held the captain and the crew of Ship-1 hostage on board. In March 2009, MUSÉ, and others armed with firearms, boarded a ship (“Ship-1″) as it was navigating in the Indian Ocean. MUSÉ’s guilty plea arose from his participation in the April 8, 2009, hijacking of the Maersk Alabama container ship in the Indian Ocean, and the subsequent taking of the captain of the ship as a hostage, as well as his participation in the hijacking of two other vessels in late March and early April of 2009 and related hostage-taking.Īccording to the Superseding Indictment to which MUSÉ pleaded guilty, the criminal Complaint previously filed against MUSÉ on April 21, 2009, and statements made today during the guilty plea proceeding before United States District Judge LORETTA A. PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ABDUWALI ABDUKHADIR MUSÉ, the Somali pirate who led the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama container ship in the Indian Ocean, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to two felony counts of hijacking maritime vessels, two felony counts of kidnapping, and two felony counts of hostage taking.
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