Saudi pleads guilty to terror charges at Guantánamo
Source: The Miami Herald
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- A long-held Saudi captive pleaded guilty Thursday to terror charges for serving as a personal shopper for al-Qaida militants plotting attacks on ships in the Arabian Sea.
Ahmad al Darbi, 39, appeared in court in a button-down shirt and tie for the proceedings, which traded an undisclosed sentence at Guantánamo in exchange for return to his native Saudi Arabia. His attorney, Ramzi Kassem, announced that Darbi pleaded guilty to all the non-capital charges. They include terrorism, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects and hazarding a vessel.
In 2002, according to his charge sheet, Darbi bought navigational equipment and some vessels, mostly in the United Arab Emirates. They were intended to be used in an attack on a civilian oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz in an al-Qaida campaign to damage the global economy.
Some of those resources ended up being used in an attack off Yemen on a Malaysia-bound, French-flagged oil tanker, the Limburg, on Oct. 6, 2002 four after Darbis capture. A Bulgarian crew member, Atanas Atanasov, 39, was killed.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/20/3948206/saudi-pleads-guilty-to-terror.html
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)happyslug
(14,779 posts)Thus be released next week, if not sooner. This is the problem for holding prisoners without trials the deal offered is a sentence for time served. If the prisoner refuses, they promise to keep him in jail till he agrees. Technically that is NOT Coercion, but a plea bargain.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)I get what your saying, but to me that's coercion.
rafeh1
(385 posts)when you have a criminal justice system you will get criminal justice.
Innocent until you run out of money (or time in this case) strikes again
I propose we change our criminal justice system to a justice system.. Why on earth would we refer to our justice system as criminal unless it is criminal.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)happyslug
(14,779 posts)People have complained about such Coercion for decades, but the courts have ruled it is not Coercion,
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Response to Freddie Stubbs (Original post)
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