Guantanamo Prisoner Accused In Al-Qaeda Plot

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Washington Post
December 21, 2007
Pg. 20
MIAMI -- Prosecutors for the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals charged a Saudi Arabian prisoner 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 Ahmed Muhammed Haza al Darbi was formally served with charges of conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism. The charges 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 crew members for a plot to use explosives-laden vessels to attack a ship off the coast of Yemen or in the Strait of Hormuz.
The documents do not indicate that the plot was carried out.
Al Darbi is the fifth prisoner charged under the revised Guantanamo tribunal system created in 2006, after the Supreme Court struck down an earlier version.
 
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