Taliban helper James Ujaama–who was acting as a government witness against terrorist kingpins like Abu “Captain Hook” Hamza al-Masri, got picked up in December down in Belize. He had reached a plea bargain that forbade him to leave the country, so of course, he left the country. Now he’s back in Seattle, looking at a new trial.

“I don’t know what he was thinking,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said after the hearing.

One wonders where he got the documents to travel into Belize in the first place.

With Hamza in jail in Britain, Ujaama’s testimony against him isn’t that valuable. Unless he has some dirt to dish on someone else important (as Allah suggests he might), the government might lose patience with Ujaama when it comes time to sentence him again, and send him away for good.

UPDATE: They do tend to get a bit of the wanderlust, don’t they?