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NORFOLK, Va. — Five Somali men convicted of piracy for attacking a U.S. Navy ship off Africa’s coast were sentenced to life in prison Monday, although several of them said through an interpreter they wanted to appeal.
The men were also sentenced to serve an additional 80 years in prison on other charges related to the attack on the USS Nicholas.
Defense lawyers had argued the men were innocent fishermen who had been abducted by pirates and forced to fire their weapons at the ship.
