By JOANNE MARINER
“We will continue to bring the world’s most dangerous terrorists to justice,” President George Bush said in 2006, explaining why Congress needed to pass a bill to allow detained terrorist suspects to be prosecuted in military commissions. That same month, the Republican-controlled Congress voted in favor of the legislation that the Administration wanted, [...]
By Justin Florence
Last week, Salem Hamdan was tried and sentenced by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay in the first proceeding of its kind since 9/11. A Pentagon-selected panel of six senior military officers carefully deliberated about the verdict and the sentence over several days, ultimately agreeing on a sentence of 66 months - after [...]
By Patrick Martin
A jury of six military officers sentenced Guantánamo prisoner Salim Hamdan to five and one-half years in prison, making him eligible for release before the end of this year, since he has been given credit for five years and one month already served. The decision clearly stunned military prosecutors, who had argued for [...]
..tis true .. I have to say I noticed this months ago…
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - It was no coincidence the U.S. military jurors at Guantanamo timed the prison sentence they gave Osama bin Laden’s driver to end just before President Bush’s term does, legal analysts say.
The timing seems intended to [...]
TOM TEEPEN
The verdict and sentence in the war crimes trial of Salim Hamdan at Guantanamo suggest a military judge and jury taking justice seriously, but the military commissions that President Bush designated for handling such cases remain intolerably flawed.
The president’s novelty courts insult American values and affront the nation’s honorable traditions of military justice. They [...]
The Pentagon must see sense and accept the verdict of its own tribunal at Guantanamo
The Pentagon and US military prosecutors were quick to hail the verdict on Salim Hamdan, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried by the special military tribunal. They insisted that his acquittal on conspiracy charges and the light sentence passed on [...]
..SHAM Kangaroo Kourt strikes again, from Aafia S. to this… clearly there will be NO Justice for the Guantanamo detainees! We cannot let this happen!
SALIM Hamdan will continue to be held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as an enemy combatant after he serves out a five and half year sentence for providing material support for [...]
A military jury has sentenced Osama bin Laden’s fromer-driver, Salim Hamdan to five years and six months in prison for supporting terrorism.
In an exclusive interview with press TV, Gareth Peirce, a prominent human right lawyer said that Hamdan’s verdict has no legal justification.
“There is no logical legal sense to it that anyone can [...]
By Corey Flintoff
Salim Hamdan attends his trial
inside the war crimes courthouse at
Camp Justice, the legal complex of
the U.S. Military Commissions, at
Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base,
Cuba, July 23, 2008. Getty Images
Salim Hamdan attends his trial inside the war crimes courthouse at Camp Justice, the legal [...]
By Afshin Rattansi, Press TV, Tehran
Press TV interviewed Andy Worthington from Reprieve, a human rights group which gives legal representation to prisoners being treated unjustly by powerful governments.
Press TV: 7 years after 9-11, more than a million dead perhaps in Iraq, tens of thousands in Afghanistan. They’ve failed to convict in the first US [...]
By James Rowley
(Bloomberg) — Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s former driver was convicted of supporting terrorism in the first U.S. military war-crimes trial of a terror suspect captured after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Salim Hamdan was found guilty of providing material support to al-Qaeda by serving as bin Laden’s driver and body guard, Army Colonel Gary [...]
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — As the military panel at the trial of a former driver for Osama bin Laden deliberated for a full day Tuesday without reaching a verdict, the presiding military judge said he might have given the members incorrect legal instructions about how the international law of war is to be [...]
The institutions of justice at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base have a jerry-rigged character and despite Washington’s best intention, the trials staged there retain a similarly low-grade quality.
By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent
The building where Salim Hamdan entered the historical annals as the first man on the US military enclave convicted of war crimes is an [...]
A conviction in the first American war-crimes trial since the second world war
SALIM HAMDAN admitted that he was Osama bin Laden’s driver. But was he a terrorist? Captured in Afghanistan and later transferred to Guantánamo Bay, he has become the first person to hear a verdict from the military commissions set up to try Guantánamo’s [...]
The US military jury in the war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden’s driver is to continue deliberations despite the possibility of a mistrial being raised.
Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni citizen who is charged with conspiracy and providing material support to terrorism, faces life in prison if convicted.
Hamdan denies the charges, saying he worked for bin [...]
A verdict is expected in the Guantanamo Bay war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, the first to be delivered by the controversial tribunals created by the Bush administration.
The panel of six US military officers began its second day of deliberations on Tuesday over the case against Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni citizen who [...]
Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, said at his military war crimes trial Wednesday that he never told a Defense Department interrogator he had taken an oath of loyalty to the terrorist leader.
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That contradicts the testimony of the former interrogator. But Judge Keith Allred, a Navy captain, was to rule today [...]
..WHAT? I thought they were closing Guantanamo!
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention center said Saturday he has been researching new potential accommodations for Osama bin Laden’s driver, who could be held here indefinitely regardless of the verdict at his war crimes trial.
A jury of American military officers [...]
By JONATHAN MAHLER
Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson opened the proceedings at Nuremberg not with a list of Nazi atrocities but with a tribute to the war-crimes court itself: “That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law [...]
The “capture videos” the Pentagon aims to bury, late-night brutality pointing to the CIA — and even a surreal viewing of “The Dark Knight” here in Guantánamo.
Salon Editor’s note: Since May, staff members of Human Rights Watch have been reporting on U.S. judicial proceedings at Guantánamo for Salon.
By Julia Hall
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Given all [...]
By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Confessed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed testified on paper Friday in the defense of Osama bin Laden’s driver — and the defense rested in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.
”He was not a soldier, he was a driver,” Mohammed [...]
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Day to Day, August 1, 2008 · In the first trial of a Guantanamo detainee, the defense has rested its case. Salem Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s former driver, is being tried for aiding terrorists. But he denies being a part of al-Qaida. Alex Chadwick talks with NPR’s John McChesney who [...]
By Carol Rosenberg | McClatchy Newspapers
A military judge declared Osama bin Laden’s former driver an “unlawful enemy combatant” in a ruling released Thursday, clearing the way the driver to be tried on war crimes charges in May before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Hours later, the military filed charges against another Guantanamo detainee, an [...]
By Carol Rosenberg | The Miami Herald
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Soon after Osama bin Laden’s driver got here in 2002, he told interrogators the identity of the al Qaeda chief’s most senior bodyguard — then a fellow prison camp detainee.
But, inexplicably, the U.S. let the bodyguard go.
This startling information was revealed in the [...]
By Jim Loney
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden’s driver knew the target of the fourth hijacked jetliner in the September 11 attacks, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in an attempt to draw a link between Salim Hamdan and the al Qaeda leadership in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.
Hamdan’s lawyer [...]
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