Somalia pirate captured
Published:Tuesday | April 21, 2009 | 1:03 PM
A Somali teenager captured by the US during the rescue of an American sea captain from pirates is due to appear in a federal court in New York.
Sixteen year old Abde Kadhir Muse will be the first person to face piracy charges in the US in over a century.
He was held over the seizure of Maersk Alabama Captain Richard Phillips off Somalia and flown to the US on Monday.
His mother has been appealing to US President Barack Obama to free him.
The teenager is accused of being a member of the pirate gang, which boarded the Maersk Alabama container ship on April 8 and took Captain Phillips hostage in a lifeboat.