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May 25, 2011 Two More Somalis Plead Guilty in US Piracy Trial 24 May 2011 VOA News Two Somali men have pleaded guilty to piracy for their roles in a yacht hijacking in February that left four Americans dead. Abdi Jama Aqid and Said Abdi Fooley entered their pleas Tuesday in a court in the eastern U.S. city of Norfolk. They are the latest of seven Somalis to enter guilty pleas in connection with the incident. According to court documents, Aqid spotted ships to target for hijacking and believed he could get as much as $80,000 as his share of ransom. Fooley admitted to bringing a semi-automatic weapon on board the ship. He said he often was stationed at the front of the yacht as a guard. Both men said they were not personally involved in the shooting of the four U.S. citizens on board. They face mandatory life sentences, but they could serve less time as a result of their plea agreement. The men are expected to be sentenced by September. Including Aqid and Fooley, 14 people from Somalia and one from Yemen are facing charges related to the hijacking. The owners of the yacht Quest and their two friends were shot to death several days after being taken hostage, hundreds of kilometers south of Oman. They were the first U.S. citizens killed in a wave of pirate attacks in recent years in the region. On Monday, two other Somalis pleaded guilty to piracy in the incident. The latest guilty pleas bring to seven the number of defendants who have admitted their roles in the abduction of the yacht. [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/
