18:13 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThree Somali men have pleaded guilty in US federal court to piracy charges for their role in a hijacking that ended in the deaths of four American sailors.<\/p>\n
They face life sentences, but could receive lighter terms and eventually be deported to Somalia.<\/p>\n
Two of them also pleaded guilty to hostage taking at the Virginia court.<\/p>\n
The men are among 15 who have been charged for their roles in the February hijacking of the Quest. The yacht’s owners and two guests were shot dead.<\/p>\n
The group of pirates were negotiating with the US military to release the Americans – Scott and Jean Adam, and Bob Riggle and Phyllis Macay – when a rocket-propelled grenade was fired from the yacht at the guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett.<\/p>\n
Gunfire then broke out inside the yacht, and US special forces were sent to investigate. The pirates killed their hostages before the troops boarded, the US military said.<\/p>\n
The troops shot dead two pirates as they boarded and another two were found dead when they arrived, it added.<\/p>\n
At least three of the accused killed the hostages without provocation, prosecutors allege.<\/p>\n
Mohamud Salad Ali, Mohamud Hirs Issa Ali and Ali Abdi Mohamed, who pleaded guilty on Friday, stated in their plea agreements that they played no direct role in the killings.<\/p>\n
Several others charged in the case have plea hearings next week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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