{"id":31497,"date":"2012-08-13T18:57:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T22:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31497"},"modified":"2012-08-13T18:57:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T22:57:31","slug":"pirate-gets-twelve-life-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31497","title":{"rendered":"Pirate gets twelve life sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Norfolk, VA handed a pirate chief 12 life sentences in the piracy case of a German merchant vessel and US yacht in 2010 during which four Americans were murdered and the crew of the German vessel were tortured to up the ransom, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/judge-gives-somali-pirate-12-life-sentences-in-us-yacht-deaths-1.185623\">Associated Press<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think this case explodes the myth, if still it exists out there, that pirates are some kind of romantic swashbuckling characters from Hollywood summer movies. This case showed that pirates are brutal, greedy, reckless, desperate criminals who will kidnap, torture and ultimately kill hostages in pursuit of their financial greed,&#8221; U.S. Attorney Neil MacBride said after sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>The yacht owners, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey, Calif., along with friends Bob Riggle and Phyllis Macay of Seattle, were the first U.S. citizens killed in a wave of pirate attacks that have plagued the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean despite a regular patrol of international warships. Negotiations with a U.S. Navy ship that was shadowing the Quest were underway when a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at it and shots aboard the yacht rang out. By the time Navy SEALs scrambled onboard the boat, the Americans had already been shot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ten of the life sentences will run concurrently and two consecutively and Mohammad Saaili Shibin, the pirate, was also ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution. Prosecutors are saving the death sentence for three others who actually pulled the triggers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Norfolk, VA handed a pirate chief 12 life sentences in the piracy &hellip; <a title=\"Pirate gets twelve life sentences\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31497\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pirate gets twelve life sentences<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}