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He is a teenager. He stands 5'2". He has a wounded hand. His three shipmates have been shot dead by commando snipers. Yet CBS' Armen Keteyian aggrandized the bedraggled figure of abdu-Wali Muse to the title of "suspected ringleader" of the speedboat crew that failed to hijack the Maersk Line's freighter Alabama off the coast of his native Somalia. He appeared in federal court accused of piracy. "The defense claims he is 16, a minor and therefore these proceedings should not be open to the public," reported NBC's Ron Allen. On ABC, John Berman used his network's newsgathering ties to the BBC to quote Muse's mother, interviewed by the World Service in his home village of Galka'yo. "He is 16. I sent him to school. He has gone missing…He has been used for that crime by other men." The judge decided that Muse is an adult. Now everybody knows his name.
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