Michael Scott Moore (born 1969) is an American journalist and novelist. He is the author of Sweetness and Blood (2010), a nonfiction book about the global history of surfing, and The Desert and the Sea …

Nov 13, 2024 · Abdi Yusuf Hassan, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Somalia who had lived in Minneapolis, and Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed of Mogadishu, Somalia, were sentenced on Tuesday …

Nov 14, 2024 · (NewsNation) — A Somali man who became a naturalized U.S. citizen has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the 2012 kidnapping of American journalist Michael Scott Moore.

Nov 13, 2024 · Two Somali pirates have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping American journalist Michael Scott Moore and holding him hostage for 977 days, federal prosecutors said …

Nov 13, 2024 · Michael Scott Moore, a German American journalist, was abducted in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, 400 miles northeast of the capital, Mogadishu. Chris Pizzello / AP

Nov 13, 2024 · "For nearly three years, Michael Scott Moore was held hostage in Somalia by pirates. He was beaten, chained to the floor, and threatened with assault rifles and machine guns.

Jul 24, 2018 · Michael Scott Moore is a journalist and novelist, author of a comic novel about L.A., "Too Much of Nothing," as well as a travel book about surfing, "Sweetness and Blood," which was named …

Two Somali pirates have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the kidnapping of American journalist Michael Scott Moore and holding him hostage for nearly 1000 days, federal prosecutors...

Jul 26, 2018 · Journalist Michael Scott Moore reflects on his harrowing, nearly three-year experience as a hostage of Somali pirates and the political and historical forces that shaped the story.

This is Michael Scott Moore, who edits Radio Free Mike. His website went dark while he was a hostage in Somalia, a brutal ordeal which lasted two and a half years.