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 [...]
SAEED SHAH
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
Fauzia Siddiqui, sister of U.S.-trained neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui,
speaks during a news conference in Karachi August 5, 2008.
Pakistan has demanded consular access to a Pakistani woman with
suspected links to al Qaeda who is due to be arraigned in New York
on Tuesday on charges of attempting to murder [...]
Cageprisoners rejects the ‘sham’ story that is being fed by the US administration regarding the circumstances and details of Aafia Siddiqui’s detention.
On Monday 4th August 2008, federal prosecutors in the US confirmed that Aafia Siddiqui was extradited to the US from Afghanistan where they allege she had been detained since mid-July 2008. The US [...]
..The USA are the new Nazis, as you can clearly see from this photograph of her after her concentration camp experience. Surely the death of her two youngest children and her sexual abuse is enough! Does she look like she is healthy enough to have picked up a rifle, much less shot it???
By Scott [...]
Guantanamo Bay News
