{"id":427670,"date":"2011-05-20T23:57:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/20\/three-somalis-plead-guilty-in-piracy-that-led-to-americans-deaths\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T23:57:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:57:03","slug":"three-somalis-plead-guilty-in-piracy-that-led-to-americans-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/20\/three-somalis-plead-guilty-in-piracy-that-led-to-americans-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Somalis plead guilty in piracy that led to Americans&#8217; deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"70.5998759305\">\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p>By <strong>Carol Cratty<\/strong>, CNN Senior Producer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"38.5941644562\">\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<p>(From left) Mohamud Hirs Issa Ali, Mohamud Salad Ali and Ali Abdi Mohamed entered guilty pleas on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The hijacking of the yacht Quest in February ended with four deaths<\/li>\n<li>The piracy and hostage-taking charges carry mandatory life sentences<\/li>\n<li>The three Somali men deny any role in the deaths<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Washington (CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; Three Somali men pleaded guilty on Friday to piracy and hostage-taking charges involving the yacht Quest, a February hijacking that ended with the death of four American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamud Hirs Issa Ali, Mohamud Salad Ali and Ali Abdi Mohamed &#8212; all in their 30s &#8212; entered guilty pleas in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The piracy and hostage-taking charges carry mandatory life sentences. In their plea agreements, the three men said, &#8220;They played no role in the murder of the four United States citizens,&#8221; according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Americans Scott and Jean Adams, Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle were found shot to death when U.S. forces boarded the yacht.<\/p>\n<p>The guilty pleas are an important step, said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Janice Fedarcyk of the New York Field Office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Modern piracy isn&#8217;t swordplay and derring-do; it&#8217;s armed robbery and cold-blooded murder at sea. The FBI remains determined to see pirates brought to justice,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said, &#8220;If you pirate an American ship, you will be caught and you&#8217;ll face severe consequences in an American courtroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/edition_africa\/~3\/3wGPMoJAO_Q\/index.html\" title=\"Three Somalis plead guilty in piracy that led to Americans' deaths\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Somalis plead guilty in piracy that led to Americans&#8217; deaths<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Carol Cratty , CNN Senior Producer (From left) Mohamud Hirs Issa Ali, Mohamud Salad Ali and Ali Abdi Mohamed entered guilty pleas on Friday. STORY HIGHLIGHTS The hijacking of the yacht Quest in February ended with four deaths The piracy and hostage-taking charges carry mandatory life sentences The three Somali men deny any role in the deaths Washington (CNN) &#8212; Three Somali men pleaded guilty on Friday to piracy and hostage-taking charges involving the yacht Quest, a February hijacking that ended with the death of four American citizens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":423585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-427670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Three Somalis plead guilty in piracy that led to Americans&#039; deaths - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/20\/three-somalis-plead-guilty-in-piracy-that-led-to-americans-deaths\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Three Somalis plead guilty in piracy that led to Americans&#039; deaths - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Carol Cratty , CNN Senior Producer (From left) Mohamud Hirs Issa Ali, Mohamud Salad Ali and Ali Abdi Mohamed entered guilty pleas on Friday. 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