Somali pirate sentenced to 33 years in US prison
Found on BBC News on Tuesday, 15 February 2011
In federal court in New York, prosecutors had portrayed Muse as a ringleader of the pirate gang who seized the Maersk Alabama some 450km (280 miles) off the coast of Somalia.
Muse pleaded guilty in May to what were said to be the first piracy charges to have been brought in the US in more than a century.
Compared to a life in Somalia, the US prison is quite a good alternative. You don't need to worry about food and you're not going to be shot by accident.