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Abduwali Muse

1990

Nationality
Somalia
Occupation
pirate

Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse (born 1990) is a Somali pirate.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Fci Edgefield
    Dates unknown
  2. Fci Edgefield
    Dates unknown
  3. Fci Edgefield
    Dates unknown

Biography

Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse (born 1990) is a Somali pirate. 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. On 16 February 2011, Muse was convicted and sentenced to 33 years and 9 months in U.S. federal prison. Muse was portrayed by Somali-American actor Barkhad Abdi in the 2013 film Captain Phillips, a dramatization of the hijacking.

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