Federal judge sentences Somali pirate to 30 years
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] on Monday sentenced [press release] Somali citizen Jama Idle Ibrahim to 30 years in prison for an April attack on the USS Ashland in the Gulf of Aden. Ibrahim, originally charged with piracy [JURIST news archive], reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty [JURIST report] to charges of attacking to plunder a vessel, committing an act of violence against persons on a vessel…