Salim Hamdan
Aug 7 2008, Kamal Kishore

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 century.

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