Not surprising that this particular fish threw himself into the boat at [link|http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040713_976.html|an offer of amnesty]. Helps placate the fundamentalists, while keeping him under wraps (at least that's the hope within the risk they are taking).

So the Saudi monarchy looks good to the fundamentalists (we took him back), while getting the American's good will (catching a big fish). And it costs the Saudi's almost nothing to try to continue the status quo.