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In what must have seemed to Rudy Giuliani like a scene out of his nightmares, yesterday it was determined that there is officially a room where discussing 9/11 is off-limits—inside the courtroom of former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik's corruption trial. During a pretrial meeting in White Plains federal court, the judge told Kerik's team, "This is not about 9/11." Kerik was indicted of trading city contracts for free apartment renovations to his Bronx apartment from a mob-linked contractor.

Abduhl Wal-i-Musi, the lone pirate who surrendered to the U.S. Navy after holding an American container ship captain hostage, arrived in New York last night. The Daily News reports that he "look[ed] young, gaunt and clueless about the federal charges he faces"—he will be arraigned this morning in federal court. Wal-i-Musi was one of four pirates who tried to hijack the Maersk Alabama in the Horn of Africa. The ship's crew members were able to take back the ship, but the pirates, armed with machine guns, took Captain Richard Phillips as a hostage. Shortly Wal-i-Musi agreed to be taken to a Naval destroyer monitoring the pirates' boat, Navy Seals killed the remaining pirates and rescued Phillips.