U.S. charges suspected bin Laden driver (Hamdan)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

U.S. charges suspected bin Laden driver

1 hour, 33 minutes ago

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The United States filed charges of conspiracy and
providing support for terrorism Thursday against a Guantanamo detainee
accused of working as a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.

Salim Ahmed Hamdan is the third Guantanamo detainee to be charged under
a new set of rules signed last year by President Bush after the Supreme
Court rejected the previous system.

Hamdan, who is from Yemen, has been detained at Guantanamo since May
2002. It was his legal challenge that forced the Bush administration and
Congress to draft new rules for the military trials, known as commissions,
for the men held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in eastern Cuba.

In the charging documents, the military said Hamdan conspired with bin
Laden and other al-Qaida leaders in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in
Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, and the
terrorist attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070510/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_charges

[HuffleClaw]

1. sort of like charging a guy on bush's secret service detail with war crimes

and just as stupid.

[Roland99]

2. Gonzo takes the stand today. DIVERT!!

*5* years to charge this guy???

*5 YEARS*?!?!