By Tim McGlone
The Virginian-Pilot
NORFOLK
The sentencings of two Somali pirates set for Friday in federal court were postponed and will be rescheduled.
Said Abdi Fooley and Abdi Jama Aqid are the last of 11 to plead guilty in the hijacking of the yacht Quest, which left four Americans dead.
A group of pirates hijacked the 58-foot vessel in the Arabian Sea, about 840 miles from Somalia, on Feb. 18.
The hijacking turned deadly four days later when the U.S. Navy approached and tried to negotiate the release of the hostages. The Somalis refused, and several of them shot and killed the Americans: yacht owners Scott Underwood Adam and Jean Savage Adam of Los Angeles and their friends and crew Phyllis Patricia Macay and Robert Campbell Riggle of Seattle.
The three pirates accused of being the shooters are scheduled to stand trial in the spring. Those already sentenced have received life prison terms
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