Ahmed al-Darbi (born 9 January 1975) was an al-Qaeda member from Saudi Arabia.
Biography[]
Ahmed al-Darbi was born on 9 January 1975 in Ta'if, Saudi Arabia, and he was the brother-in-law of Khalid al-Mihdhar. He trained at the Jihad Wahl training camp in Afghanistan under al-Qaeda and purchased a boat in Sao Tome and Principe to use to attack the French oil tanker MV Limburg on 6 October 2002. An explosives-laden dinghy exploded, killing a Bulgarian worker and wounding 12 others, and in 2002 al-Darbi was arrested in Azerbaijan for the attack. He was sent to Guantanamo Bay, a United States-run prison facility in Cuba, and he was held in extrajudicial detention there.