Somali Man Gets 30 Years for Attack on U.S. Navy Ship

Norfolk, Virginia – A Somali man who admitted his role in an attack on a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Africa was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison under a deal can be brought back to court to testify against five of its citizens accused in the attack.
And the rule of the Ibrahim Mosque inactivity in the U.S. District Court on three charges: an attack to plunder the ship, an act of violence against persons on board the ship, and the use of a firearm during a crime of violence.
And entered a guilty plea on the charges in August for his role in the April 10 attack on the USS Ashland, Virginia-based amphibious landing ship.
Abraham agreed to cooperate with the government in the prosecution of five other defendants charged in the case, according to the terms of the agreement with prosecutors.
Ibrahim faces also power in Washington, DC, on two counts of assault in November 2008 aboard a Danish ship. The crew was held hostage for 71 days.
And entered a guilty plea in September to conspiracy to commit piracy and conspiracy to use a firearm in a crime of violence.
Ibrahim faces 25 years in prison in that case, but it would serve the term concurrently with his state of Virginia, according to the plea agreement.
It is scheduled to be accused for trial in Ashland last summer, but the judge rejected the accusation of piracy, which carried a life sentence mandatory. Government appeals that dismissal. The five defendants still face looting, firearms and other charges.
Last Wednesday, was found on five Somali nationals involved in the attack on April 1 USS Nicholas on charges of piracy and 13 other charges. Sentencing is scheduled them for March 14.
This is the first piracy conviction in a U.S. court in nearly 200 years.
“Piracy is a growing threat in all parts of the world, and today’s sentencing, along with the convictions last week, shows that the United States will hold a modern-day pirates in the halls of the courts accountable to the United States,” said U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride H in the statement .
The Ashland and Nicholas, and a frigate, part of an international fleet patrolling the pirate-infested waters off the coast of Somalia.
The government said the suspects in both incidents believed the Navy ships and commercial vessels.