Saudi Club Gitmo Resident Charged in Ship Plot

Of course the left will have a difficult time swallowing this news, as they all know the poor folks at Guantanamo Bay are just political prisoners who mean us no harm.

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.

Meanwhile, a former Club Gitmo resident goes free in the UK, with bail money put up by nitwit actress Vanessa Redgrave.