Crime

Jurors hear alleged pirate make demands on call

By Frederic J. Frommer
Published November 8, 2013 11:01pm ET
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Jurors hear alleged pirate make demands on call
This image provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office shows government exhibit #20, a photo of the crew of the M/V CEC Future, which had been held by pirates for more than two months, standing in a line in January 2009, just before a $1.7 million ransom was paid. At right is Ali Mohamed Ali, who served as a translator and is being tried in Washington on piracy charges. The two men on the left and one man in the center are pirates. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney's Office) | ap

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jurors in the piracy trial of a Somali man who served as a translator during a hostage siege heard him making demands on a recorded phone conversation with a negotiator for the ship’s owner.

On the Nov. 12, 2008, call, which was played in Ali Mohamed Ali’s trial this week, a negotiator for the Denmark company Clipper Group tells Ali that the two sides need to go back to negotiations and “not through threats like this one.”

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