Listening to this conversation, the pirates turned around their ship returned. The captain showed his presence of mind and made a pretend-call to the warship requesting for immediate air support and then replied to his own message by changing his voice saying that air support will be there in the next 5 minutes. One of the pirates used a walky-talky acquired from some previous loot, and thus were able to listen to the conversations happening aboard the ship and Captain knew it. Now this ship was unarmed and the pirate ship was armed in two skiffs. During the drill itself, the ship was chased by Somali pirates. While the ship was at the Horn of Africa, Richard Phillip and his first officer Shane Murphy decided to carry out practice drills.
Captain phillips pirate movie#
The movie highlights the importance of qualities like situational awareness, good communication, and teamwork. He was brought aboard the USS Bainbridge, shortly before Navy Seal snipers killed the three remaining pirates holding Phillips in a lifeboat.Just a few days ago, I was watching this amazing documentary called “Captain Phillips.” Inspired by the true story of the “Maersk Alabama hijacking” in the year 2009, it tells of the unarmed ship going from the Port of Salalah in Oman to Mombasa, Kenya. "If the United States of America is putting my son on trial, I would like to be taken there. He has nothing to do with that crime, he is only a child, and he has been used for that crime by the other men," she said, pleading. government and President Obama to release my son. When I could not find him, students said to me they thought he had gone with pirates," the pirate's mother, identified as Hassan, said from her home in Galka'yo town, 465 miles north of Somalia's capital. "Students told me that my son was seen to be talking with pirates. He'd gone missing, and I had been looking for him for 15 days," she told the BBC. The alleged pirate's mother insists her son is only 16 and offered a different version of his name - Abdi Wali Abdulqadir Muse. The government gives his age at this point as "over 18".Īccording to The Associated Press, investigators have determined that from the attack on the Alabama and the hostage-taking of freighter captain Richard Phillips, the suspect is at least 18 years old, one official told the press agency. Muse was flown to New York hours after his mother appealed to President Obama for his release saying her son is just 16 years old. His hands chained at his waist, he smiled broadly as lights from a battery of media cameras put him in a spotlight while FBI agents assigned to his case brought him into their headquarters in lower Manhattan. Muse arrived in New York Monday night, landing in a driving rain storm at a nearby airbase and driven from there to the FBI's New York headquarters. The courtroom was filled with reporters, federal officials and others at the time. Muse held his face and appeared to start crying before witnesses to required to leave. The attorneys are hoping to get the suspect's father, who reportedly lives in Philadelphia, Penn., on the phone to help confirm his age. Peck sealed the Muse court proceeding and asked reporters and others to leave the courtroom while the question of his age, raised by his defense attorneys, was addressed.
Now, Muse has been brought to face justice in an American courtroom," Dassin said.Įarlier Tuesday, U.S. Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse and his fellow pirates attacked an American crew and its American captain on a ship flying an American flag.
"Today's charges demonstrate our commitment to hold pirates accountable for their crimes.
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