Somali man pleads guilty in Virginia to attack on U.S. vessel

[Gerald]

(CNN) -- A Somali man Friday became the second person convicted in the United States of acts related to high-seas piracy in more than a century, although he wasn't convicted of piracy itself.Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty in a federal courtroom in Norfolk, Virginia, admitting he had intended to seize a U.S. merchant vessel on April 10 and hold it for ransom brahim and five other would-be pirates learned too late that they had instead pulled alongside a U.S. Navy dock landing ship, the USS Ashland, and they were captured.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/27/us.piracy.conviction/index.html





Note:August 27, 2010 Updated 2303 GMT

[Tribesman]

So they got the convictions then, I could have sworn they were let off scot free as I remember reading that Virginia had declared open season on the US Navy
If you can dump your weapons overboard before they catch you feel free to attack the US Navy whenever you want

[kranz]

I don't approve piracy or w/e but 30 years behind the bars is much....