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Thread #113332 Message #2407859
Posted By: Emma B
07-Aug-08 - 04:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: First Gitmo 'trial'- any reactions?
Subject: RE: BS: First Gitmo 'trial'- any reactions?
'The six jurors, whose names are secret, convicted Hamdan yesterday on charges of providing material support for terrorism by working as a driver and occasional armed bodyguard and weapons courier for bin Laden in Afghanistan from 1996 to November 2001.
They sentenced Hamdan, who is about 40, to serve five and a half years in prison.
He has already spent six years at Guantanamo.
Defence lawyer Charles Swift said Hamdan never shared bin Laden's ideology and was merely a paid driver ridiculed by al-Qaeda insiders as "a simple Bedouin who changed the oil."