محاكمة القرصان الصومالي في نيويورك الامريكيه

A Pirate Comes To New York



April 21, 2009 10:58 AM

There
may never have been a stranger odyssey than the one that has brought a
young man to federal court in New York this morning.

The surviving Somali pirate from the attack on the US-flagged merchant ship Maersk Alabama
arrived in New York last night, landing in a driving rainstorm at a
nearby airbase, facing a gaggle of cameras before being driven to the
FBI's New York headquarters at 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan. He
was accompanied on his flight by the FBI agents assigned to his case.


A couple of weeks ago,
Abduhl Wal-i-Musi was in Galka'yo a dry and dusty town in Somalia, 465
miles north of the capital. He was attending school when he was
approached -- coerced, his mother insists -- by men who run a piracy
ring.

"He is 16," his mother told the BBC. "I sent him to school, he'd
gone missing, and I had been looking for him for 15 days. Then, the
next thing I know is that his story had been reported on the BBC...My
son had been missing for 15 days. At the time he had been held, I
searched for him, I went to different towns. But students told me that
my son was seen to be talking with pirates. He was going around with
them. When I could not find him students said to me they thought he had
gone with pirates. I would like to request from the U.S. government and
President Obama to release my son. He is only a child, and he has been
used for that crime by the other men. If the United States of America
is putting my son on trial I would like to be taken there. That is all
I am requesting.اليوم اول جلسه لمحاكمة القرصان الصومالي في نيويورك وهذا الذي تم القبض عليه عند تحرير الرهينه الامريكي الكابتن فلب