Two people helped Somali pirates abduct a German-American journalist in 2012 for a $1.6 million ransom. They were convicted of hostage-taking and supporting acts of terrorism.
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Two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years, prosecutors said. Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed and Abdi Yusuf Hassan were convicted by a federal court jury in New York on Feb. 24 of hostage-taking, conspiracy, providing material support for acts ofMichael Scott Moore, a German-American journalist, was abducted in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, 400 miles northeast of the capital of Mogadishu. He was working as a freelancer for the German publication Spiegel Online and researching a book about piracy.
The kidnappers demanded $20 million in ransom and at one point released a video showing Moore surrounded by masked kidnappers who pointed a machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade at him."Tahlil, a Somali Army officer, left his post to take command of the pirates holding Moore captive and obtained the machine guns and grenade launchers used to threaten and hold Moore," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.
Michael Scott Moore, author of"The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast," poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on June 20, 2018.
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