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Official: Bin Laden's driver heading home to Yemen

AP — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:59:56 +0000

A senior defense official says former Osama bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan is being transferred from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, back to his home country of...

Bin Laden's ex-driver convicted

Kamal Kishore — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:50:38 +0000

A military jury yesterday found a former driver for Osama bin Laden guilty of supporting terrorism but not of conspiring in terrorist attacks, handing the Bush administration a partial victory in the first US war crimes trial in a half a...

Other Guantanamo prisoners awaiting trial

AP — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:58:23 +0000

Charges have been filed against 19 Guantanamo prisoners, in addition to Salim Hamdan, who was convicted by a jury Wednesday, and David Hicks, who pleaded guilty in March 2007. The military has also prepared charges against a 20th prisoner and plans...

Detainee asks judge to delay 1st Guantanamo trial

AP — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:07:16 +0000

Lawyers for Osama bin Laden’s former driver Salim Hamdan asked a civilian judge Thursday to delay his military trial.Hamdan has been challenging the legality of the military commission system since 2004. But the case stalled as courts...

Judge sees no reason to delay Guantanamo trial

AP — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:54:08 +0000

A judge has denied a defense motion to postpone the trial of former Osama bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan, a spokesman for the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals said Friday.The military judge said pretrial hearings will go forward as planned on July 14...

Lawyer for bin Laden driver wants charges dismissed

AP — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:58:57 +0000

Osama bin Laden’s former driver may not go on trial this summer at Guantanamo after all. The military lawyer for Salim Hamdan says the Supreme Court ruling on the rights of Guantanamo prisoners is likely to at least delay the Yemeni’s...