Saudi at Guantanamo charged in ship attack plot

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Saudi at Guantanamo charged in ship attack plot
Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:56pm EST

MIAMI (Reuters) - Prosecutors for the Guantanamo war
crimes tribunals charged a Saudi Arabian prisoner on
Thursday with plotting with al Qaeda to blow up a ship
off the coast of Yemen or in the Strait of Hormuz.

A Pentagon spokesman said the captive, Ahmed
Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi, was formally served with
charges of conspiracy and providing material support
for terrorism. The charges still must be approved by
a Pentagon official overseeing the Guantanamo tribunals
before they can proceed to trial.

Al Darbi is accused of training and teaching at an
al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. The
charges also allege that in 2001 and 2002, he traveled
around the Middle East shopping for boats, global
positioning devices and crewmen as part of a plot to
use explosives-laden vessels to attack a ship off the
coast of Yemen or in the Strait of Hormuz, which
connects the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSNCK42681020071221

[angstlessk]

1. USS Cole redux?? torture can get you 20 to life..maybe even death?

oh well, I hope he is a bad dude cause he is goin down!