Suspect acquitted on US piracy count

[Hannes van Rijn]

PIRACY negotiator Ali Mohamed Ali has been found not guilty of being a pirate by a US court but has another verdict to sweat out.

Ali, who had been held in a Washington, DC jail for more than two years, embraced his lawyer after the decision was announced yesterday in US District Court in Washington, according to the Associated Press. He had been facing a life sentence for his involvement in the 2008 hijacking of Clipper