update on Somali pleads guilty in case of pirate attack on US warship
WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - A Somali pirate who pleaded guilty for his role in seizing a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden and holding it for more than two months was sentenced on Thursday by a U.S. judge to 25 years in prison.The U.S. Justice Department said Jama Idle Ibrahim, 39, had previously received a 30-year prison sentence by a federal judge in Virginia for a separate attack on a U.S. Navy ship. The two sentences are to be served at the same time.A federal judge in Washington handed down the prison term for Ibrahim after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit piracy and using a firearm during a crime of violence.The act of piracy against the M/V CEC Future began on Nov. 7, 2008, when Ibrahim and other armed Somali pirates seized the vessel, which was owned by a Danish company, Clipper Group, the Justice Department said.They held the vessel, cargo and 13 crew members for ransom and forced the crew to anchor in waters off the Somalia coast, the department said. The vessel was released on Jan. 16, 2009, after Clipper Group paid $1.7 million in ransom."Modern-day pirates are nothing like the swashbuckling heroes in Hollywood movies," U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen said in a statement after the sentencing."Today's pirates are ruthless criminals who hold ships and their crews hostage with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades," he said.Pirates operating off the coast of Somalia have hijacked vessels in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden for years, making millions of dollars in ransoms by seizing ships including oil tankers.Ibrahim was one of about 25 Somalis who have been captured by the United States over the past year and brought to this country to face piracy and other criminal charges.
Some background
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WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - A Somali pirate who pleaded guilty for his role in seizing a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden and holding it for more than two months was sentenced on Thursday by a U.S. judge to 25 years in prison.The U.S. Justice Department said Jama Idle Ibrahim, 39, had previously received a 30-year prison sentence by a federal judge in Virginia for a separate attack on a U.S. Navy ship. The two sentences are to be served at the same time.A federal judge in Washington handed down the prison term for Ibrahim after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit piracy and using a firearm during a crime of violence.The act of piracy against the M/V CEC Future began on Nov. 7, 2008, when Ibrahim and other armed Somali pirates seized the vessel, which was owned by a Danish company, Clipper Group, the Justice Department said.They held the vessel, cargo and 13 crew members for ransom and forced the crew to anchor in waters off the Somalia coast, the department said. The vessel was released on Jan. 16, 2009, after Clipper Group paid $1.7 million in ransom."Modern-day pirates are nothing like the swashbuckling heroes in Hollywood movies," U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen said in a statement after the sentencing."Today's pirates are ruthless criminals who hold ships and their crews hostage with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades," he said.Pirates operating off the coast of Somalia have hijacked vessels in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden for years, making millions of dollars in ransoms by seizing ships including oil tankers.Ibrahim was one of about 25 Somalis who have been captured by the United States over the past year and brought to this country to face piracy and other criminal charges.Some background
Somalian pirate chief offers to free Danes, in exchange for their teenage daughter as a wife
EU NAVFOR Disrupts Suspected Pirate Group off the Coast of Somalia
Somali Islamists want to do ransom deals on board
Pirates ‘strike deal' with terrorists linked to al-Qaeda> Somali pirates to pay militants
Somali gov't deplores killing of U.S. hostages by pirates
Somalia Pirates Kill Four Hostage Americans: Reports :Americans slain by captors on hijacked yacht; pirates killed, arrested. # Clinton condemns killing of 4 Americans by pirates
Somali Pirete News Roundup: Somali pirate sentenced to nearly 34 years in prison : more. Somali Pirates Related Stories> Joy As 39 Hijacked Fishermen Arrive Home . Account of misdeeds by Somali pirates: Norwegian shipper: kill pirates 'on the spot'. Somali pirates use captive crew to attack vessels - hostage: Diary of SKorean held by Somali pirates revealed
Two daring naval raids may change tactics to fight Somali pirates :South Korea Expects To Hand Bodies Of Pirates Over To Somalia : South Korean Commandos Free Hijacked Ship video
update Official: Somali pirates may attack SKorean ships in revenge for rescue that killed 8 pirates: Malaysian commandos free tanker off Somalia
Pirates take record-setting 1,181 hostages in 2010, kill 8 as hijackings off Somalia rise.Violence in Somali piracy rises to record levels
PUNTLAND: SOMALIA’S PIRATE STATE
MAQAAL: Dilalka siyaasadaysani waa ‘Faroole ma dhaafto’:Gunmen kill well-known elder in Bosaso town
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