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Welcome to New York, Abduwali!

cityfile · 04/21/09 04:01PM

Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, the Somali man accused of hijacking an American cargo ship and holding its captain hostage, arrived in New York last night, the footage of which you've probably seen 273 times on the news by now. He was all smiles when he landed on American shores, but his mood was a bit different when he appeared in court this afternoon: After telling a judge via an interpreter that he had no money to pay for a lawyer, he started to cry when his lawyers brought up his family back home in Somalia. Cry not, evil pirate! You've arrived in just the right place at just the right time.