After Muse had been taken on board, the three remaining pirates were shot dead simultaneously by Navy SEAL sharpshooters. A day later USS Bainbridge intercepted the lifeboat Navy officers negotiated with the armed pirates for hours and agreed to take Muse on board Bainbridge to "meet" with elders from his clan to negotiate the release of Phillips. All four pirates escaped the ship, with Phillips held hostage inside the lifeboat. However Muse's fellow pirates forced Phillips into the lifeboat before Maersk Alabama's crew could release Muse. The crew attacked and held Muse hostage while Richard Phillips offered him and the pirates money to leave Maersk Alabama safely on the ship's lifeboat. During the attack, he was stabbed in the hand by a sailor. Peck that Muse had told Americans he was variously 16, 18, 19 and 26 years old.įurther information: Maersk Alabama hijackingĪccording to his indictment, Muse was the first of the four men who boarded Maersk Alabama.
Īt a hearing to determine Muse's age, Assistant United States Attorney Brendan McGuire said to U.S. He was married in 2008 but could not afford to establish a home for himself and his wife.
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By the age of 12, he was living alone and initially worked as an assistant to taxi drivers before working as a cook for fishermen. At a young age he was kicked in the face by a camel and lost two of his front teeth. He grew up in poverty often without food or clothes. The US Federal Bureau of Prisons states he was born in 1990, while his mother states he was born in 1992, and his father states he was born in 1993. Muse was born in Galkayo, a divided city in Somalia. Muse was portrayed by Somali actor Barkhad Abdi in the 2013 film Captain Phillips, a dramatization of the hijacking. On 16 February 2011, Muse was sentenced to 33 years and 9 months in U.S. He is the sole survivor of four pirates who hijacked the MV Maersk Alabama in April 2009 and then held Captain Richard Phillips for ransom.
info) born 1990) is a convicted Somali pirate.Currently located at Federal Correctional Institution, Terre Haute, to be released 20 June 2038.Ībduwali Abdulkadir Muse ( Somali: Cabdiweli Cabdiqaadir Muuse pronounced English pronunciation ( help Sentenced to 33 years and 9 months imprisonment. The film, which opens in the UK on Friday, has been tipped to give Hanks a tilt at Oscars glory next March.Abdulwali Abdukhad Muse, Abdul Wali Muse, Wal-i-Musi "Because he went through that area, and the company is sending him e-mails, and I know he saw that chart 50 times."Ĭaptain Phillips debuted strongly this weekend at the US box office and opened the London film festival last week, as well as screening at the New York film festival. Perry told the Post he agreed with theories that his captain wanted to be taken captive, and may even have had a death wish. At one point he attacked the chief pirate, seizing him and using him as a bargaining chip for the return of Phillips. "I don't know."Īnother crew member, chief engineer Mike Perry, is reputed to have been the real hero of the ordeal, despite having only a small presence in Greengrass's film. "I couldn't tell you exactly the miles," Phillips told the Post. Phillips' real-life crew member says his captain was just 235 miles off the coast, though Phillips says he was 300 miles off. "It is just horrendous, and they're angry."Īccording to the Post's report, ships in the area were warned to stay at least 600 miles off the Somali coast because 16 container ships had been attacked by pirates during the prior three weeks in the same region. "It is galling for them to see Captain Phillips set up as a hero," she added. He told them he wouldn't let pirates scare him or force him to sail away from the coast. The sailors' lawyer, Deborah Waters, told the Post: "The crew had begged Captain Phillips not to go so close to the Somali coast. Phillips has denied being aware of such a plan. "He didn't want anything to do with it, because it wasn't his plan," said the crew member. The crew member said Phillips, who went on to meet Barack Obama and write a memoir, refused to cut power and lock himself and the crew below deck in line with anti-pirate protocol. "No one wants to sail with him," he told the Post. "Phillips wasn't the big leader like he is in the movie," said one crew member who worked closely with the captain, speaking anonymously for legal reasons.
The sailors, who are suing their employers Maersk Line and the Waterman Steamship Corp for $50m, said Richard Phillips was a sullen, self-righteous man: their suit claims the captain's wilful disregard for his crew's safety contributed to the attack. Crew members of the Maersk Alabama, which suffered the raid off the coast of lawless Somalia in April 2009, told the New York Post the titular hero played by Tom Hanks in Paul Greengrass's critically acclaimed film was far from heroic.
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