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April 07, 2011 Somali Pirate sentenced to 25 Years by US court VOA News April 7, 2011 A U.S. court has sentenced a Somali man to 25 years in prison for a pirate attack on a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden. A federal judge in Washington sentenced Jama Idle Ibrahim on Thursday. The 39-year-old pleaded guilty last year to charges of conspiring to commit piracy and using a firearm during a violent crime. The charges stemmed from a 2008 attack on a Danish merchant ship, which was carrying cargo for a Texas-based company . Federal prosecutors say Ibrahim and other Somali men, armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, seized the vessel and held its 13-member crew for ransom. The ship and crew were released in 2009, after the ship's owner paid $1.7 million in ransom to the pirates. Ibrahim was later captured after a failed attack on a U.S. Navy vessel in the Gulf of Aden. A Virginia court sentenced him to 30 years in prison in that case last November. Ibrahim was one of six Somalis accused of attacking the USS Ashland, which they mistook for a merchant ship. In that case, he pleaded guilty to charges of attacking to plunder a vessel, violence against persons on a vessel and using a firearm during a violent crime. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
