Somali Pirate Appears in Court, to be Charged as an Adult

A Somali teenager accused of piracy has appeared in a U.S. federal court in New York where the judge determined he would be tried as an adult.

Abde Wale Abdul Kadhir Muse began crying when he learned that he would become the first person to face piracy charges in the United States in more than a century. The 16-year-old was detained by the U.S. military following a five-day hostage situation in the Indian Ocean involving the American shipping captain of the hijacked Maersk Alabama.

Capt. Richard Phillips was held hostage in a lifeboat earlier this month by a band of pirates but was freed when military sharpshooters killed the three pirates aboard the boat. Abde Wale Abdul Kadhir Muse had been aboard the USS Bainbridge negotiating a ransom when his fellow pirates were killed and he was then held and arrived in New York on Monday to face charges.

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