Bin Laden’s Driver Sentenced To 5 1/2 Years At First Guantanamo Trial

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From the AP:

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – A military jury has sentenced Osama bin Laden’s former driver to 5 1/2 years in prison for aiding terrorism, making him eligible for release in just six months. Salim Hamdan was acquitted of conspiracy in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.


Late Update
: Here’s an interesting detail noted over at ProPublica:

Even after Hamdan’s “sentence” is up, the military can continue to hold him as an enemy combatant. He can be freed when one of two things happen: 1) the government decides that he is “no longer an enemy combatant” 2) the war on terror ends.

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