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Bin Laden’s Driver Released from Guantanamo

HeadlineNov 25, 2008

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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