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TRANSFERRED Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, will be transferred to Yemen to serve the remainder of his 5 1/2--year sentence, despite arguments that he should not receive credit for the time he spent at Gitmo...
...officials ceded precious moral ground; on a practical level, his maltreatment at the hands of the United States sent the intelligence community in pursuit of false leads and diminished the potential for justice for the horrible crimes alleged in his case. In the parallel military commission trial of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver, the judge already has banned some “coercive” evidence, which means that Mohammed's confessions may not be allowed, either...
...Cuba Split Decision in Gitmo Case After a trial at Guantnamo Bay, a military panel found Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, guilty of supporting terrorism. Hamdan was acquitted, however, of conspiring with bin Laden to plan the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
...finally facing his day in court, Hamdan is a shell of a man. According to his lawyers, Hamdan can no longer meaningfully assist in his own criminal defense. He is suicidal, hears voices inside his head and talks to himself. A jury of military officers will decide Hamdan's innocence or guilt. On July 21, the presiding judge threw out statements made by Hamdan after his capture in Afghanistan, saying they were obtained under "highly coercive" circumstances. That suggests that the outcome of Hamdan's trial could influence not just how terrorism suspects are treated in the future but also...
Jonathan Mahler is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. His book The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power, from which this article is adapted, will be published in August