Later, many of those crew members told CNN that Phillips had ignored several explicit warnings that urged him to stay away from the shipping lanes where the attack took place. Phillips was initially hailed as a hero for his actions in exchanging himself for the safety of his crew. Navy SEALs ultimately rescued the ship's captain, Richard Phillips, while he was held hostage in a lifeboat not far from the Alabama. The attack occurred in the Gulf of Aden between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. "Now he will pay for those five days and the events leading up to them." "For five days that must have seemed like an eternity to his victims, Abduwali Abukhadir Muse terrorized the captain and crew of the Maersk Alabama," said Manhattan U.S. He pleaded guilty on May 18, 2010, to two felony counts of hijacking maritime vessels, two felony counts of kidnapping, and two felony counts of hostage taking, according to a U.S. Muse was also sentenced for his participation in the hijacking of two other vessels in late March and early April of 2009, which also involved the taking of hostages. He asked "forgiveness for all the people I harmed and the U.S. "I was recruited by people more powerful than me." "I'm sorry very much for what happened to victims on ship, I am very sorry about what I caused," Muse said. He was sentenced to 405 months in prison. New York (CNN) - A federal court sentenced a Somali man to nearly 34 years in prison Wednesday for acts related to high-seas piracy after he and three other men hijacked a U.S.-flagged ship as it cruised past the Horn of Africa.Ībduwali Abukhadir Muse pleaded guilty to the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama and for subsequently taking the ship's captain hostage.
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