High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse (also transliterated Abdulwali Abdukhad Muse,Abdul Wali Muse and Wal-i-Musi, among others) is a Somali hijacker. He is the sole survivor of a group of four pirates who attacked the MV Maersk Alabama and held the captain for ransom at gunpoint. On 16 February 2011, he was sentenced to over 33 years in federal prison in the first piracy trial to occur in the United States in decades.