Prosecutors say Muse led four pirates who stormed the Maersk Alabama April 8, 2009 as it carried humanitarian supplies 280 miles off Somalia's coast. Navy snipers fatally shot three pirates and freed the ship's captain to end the standoff.
NY court appearance scheduled for Piracy suspect
NEW YORK
Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse will be in federal court on Tuesday. He was brought to
New York last year for what's believed to be the first U.S. piracy
prosecution in more than a century. He has pleaded not guilty to
piracy under the law of nations and hostage-taking.
