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November 25, 2008

Bin Laden’s Driver Released from Guantanamo
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The US military has decided to release Osama bin Laden’s former driver,
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, from custody at Guantanamo and send him back to his
home country of Yemen. Hamdan was held at the military prison for five
years. In August, a military tribunal convicted him on two charges of
material support for terrorism but acquitted him of the most serious
charges. Military prosecutors had sought a thirty-year sentence, but he
was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, including the five he
had already spent at Guantanamo Bay.



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