Article: Somali teen faces piracy trial as adult

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-22-2009

Somali teen faces piracy trial as adult -- Defendant's age remains uncertain
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 04-22-2009, Wednesday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions

NEW YORK Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse grew up destitute in Somalia, the product of a violent, lawless nation where his mother scraped together a few dollars a day selling milk and tending to a small herd of camels, cows and goats.

For entertainment, he would frequent a run-down outdoor cinema and watch Bollywood movies in a town with no running water or electricity. He eventually joined up with a gang of pirates who laid siege to an American cargo ship and took the captain hostage.

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