(21 Apr 2009) SHOTLIST
+++NIGHT SHOTS+++
1. FBI agent walking towards entrance to federal building, other agents standing by door
2. Car arriving
3. Sole surviving pirate from the hostage-taking of American ship captain is escorted into building by FBI agents and New York policemen
4. Men walking past police officer, into federal building
STORYLINE
The sole surviving Somali pirate from the hostage-taking of American ship captain Captain Richard Phillips arrived in New York on Monday, smiling for a gaggle of reporters and cameramen as federal agents led him into custody to face charges in the attack.
Abduhl Wali-i-Musi was handcuffed and had a chain wrapped around his waist.
His left hand was heavily bandaged from the wound he suffered during the skirmish on the ship two weeks ago.
The smiling teenager seemed poised as he entered a federal building in a rainstorm, but he did not say anything in
response to reporters' shouted questions about whether he had any comment about the pirate episode.
Wali-i-Musi is the first person to be tried in the United States on piracy charges in more than a century. He was
flown from Africa to a New York airport and taken into custody ahead of a court hearing on Tuesday.
A law enforcement official familiar with the case said that the teenager was being charged under two obscure
federal laws that deal with piracy and hostage-taking.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the charges had not been announced.
The teenager's arrival came on the same day that his mother appealed to US President Barack Obama for his release.
The age and real name of the young pirate remained unclear.
The mother said he is only 16 years old and is named Abdi Wali Abdulqadir Muse.
The law enforcement official says he is at least 18, meaning prosecutors will not have to take extra legal steps to put him on trial in a U.S. court.
The suspect was taken aboard a U.S. Navy ship shortly before Navy SEAL snipers on the guided-missile destroyer
USS Bainbridge killed three of his colleagues who had held Captain Richard Phillips hostage.
The U.S. officials said the teenager was brought to New York to face trial in part because the FBI office here has
a history of handling cases in Africa involving major crimes against Americans, such as the al-Qaida bombings of
two U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998.

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