Salim Hamdan

Salim Hamdan

small dead animals (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

QOTW: "Watch for the motion picture version of his life: "Driving, Missed Daisy Cutter"....

Hamdan Speaks at Sentence Hearing

OTB News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Salim Hamdan, the convicted former driver for Osama bin Laden, apologized to the victims of terror.

Hamdan Gets 66 Months; Eligible for Release in 180 Days

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 56 minutes ago

The latest from Gitmo: Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s former driver, has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for aiding terrorism, making him eligible for release in just six months.

Verdict reached on Hamdan sentence

On Deadline (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

The AP reports that a verdict has been reached on the sentence for Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver and bodyguard. We'll provide details as soon as they are available. Here's today's earlier post on Hamdan.

Hamdan apologizes during Gitmo sentencing phase

On Deadline (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

USA TODAY's Alan Gomez reports that Salim Hamdan apologized for the civilians who were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks as he pleaded this morning with jurors to spare him from a life sentence. A day after he was convicted...

Flashback: Seven years ago today, Bush received ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.’ memo.

Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday | Politics

Today marks seven years since the day President Bush received a President’s Daily Brief entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” (See the memo here.) At the time, Bush was vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, TX and stayed on vacation the rest of August 2001. Here’s how the administration reacted, according to the [...]

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Salim Hamdan Found Guilt of Providing Material Support for Terrorism; Acquitted on Conspiracy

Exploring International Law (Free subscription) | yesterday

Salim HamdanThe New York Times reports: Guantánamo Detainee Found Guilty of Material Support for Terrorism but Acquitted on Conspiracy Charges

hamdan's evil secret plot to apologize

Titivil (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Wow, this is not so much, "Death to America! Death to Israel! I-ran, number one!" now, is it? "I don't know what could be given or presented to these innocent people who were killed in the U.S.," Salim Hamdan told a jury of six military officers deciding his fate after convicting him of providing material support for terrorism. "I personally present my apologies to them if anything what I did have...

Hamdan Gets 66 Months

PoliBlog (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Via the BBC: Bin Laden driver given 66 months Osama Bin Laden’s former driver has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison at the first US military trial in Guantanamo Bay. Salim Hamdan had been convicted on Wednesday of supporting terrorism but acquitted of conspiracy to murder. Prosecutors had demanded a sentence of not less than 30 [...]

Bin Laden Driver Salim Hamdan Is Found GUILTY

Gateway Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday

Look for liberals to start whining about this poor chauffeur's fate in 3... 2... 1... A military tribunal found Osama Bin Laden's driver Salim Hamdan guilty on several charges. He was accused of 10 counts of conspiracy and aiding terrorism. The Times Online reported: Osama bin Laden's chauffeur has been found guilty of supporting terrorism, in the first verdict to be delivered by the US's war crimes...

Hamdan convicted at Guantanamo

YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national, has been convicted by a panel of six US military officers of "providing material support for terrorism", but acquitted of "conspiracy". The Pentagon had, however, confirmed yesterday that he would remain in indefinite detention as an "enemy combatant" regardless of the verdict.

Salmi Hamdan Found Guilty in First U.S. War Crimes Tribunal Since WWII

Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Thursday, August 7, 2008 : In the first U.S. war crimes tribunal since World War II, a jury of six senior military officers has convicted Osama Bin Laden's former driver of two charges of material support for terrorism but acquitted him of the most serious charges. Salim Hamdan is the first prisoner held at Guantananamo to be tried before a tribunal. He has been in custody since November 2001. We...

Military tribunal convicts Salim Hamdan…for being bin Laden’s driver?

THE iPINIONS JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

The Guantanamo Bay trial of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver, was billed as the most important in the annals of international military justice since the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals over 60 years ago. Yet, with all of the media focus on the US presidential campaign (complete with this week’s surreal cameo by Paris Hilton), you can be [...]

Mixed Verdict in Hamdan

Between Worlds (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

The jurors in the military case against Salim Hamdan, the personal driver of Osama bin Laden who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001, and whose prior appeal resulted in the United States Supreme Court ruling that a military tribunal for trying enemy combatants must be created by Congress rather than the President, have handed down a mixed verdict. The BBC reports : The jury found Hamdan guilty of...

The Hamdan Verdict

The Questionable Authority (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Sometimes the only thing that separates comedy from tragedy is the involvement of an actual living human being. That certainly seems to be the case where today's military commission verdict in the trial of Salim Hamdan. Despite having the advantages of what we must, for the lack of a better word, call a legal system that was set up to give the prosecution the edge, despite the admission of hearsay...