Osama bin Laden’s former driver has been convicted on two charges of material support for terrorism but acquitted of the most serious charges. Salim Hamdan is the first Guantanamo prisoner to be tried in a case that also marks the first war crimes tribunal since World War II. Hamdan has been in custody since November 2001. Human rights groups have condemned the military tribunal system, in part because it allows the military to use secret evidence and evidence obtained through torture. Hamdan attorney Mike Berrigan criticized the verdict.

Mike Berrigan: “The real travesty of all of this is, is that the offenses for which Mr. Hamdan was found not guilty today were the only offenses that he was charged with initially back in 2004. He was acquitted of all those. The only specifications he was convicted of are offenses that were added after the fact by the Military Commissions Act in 2006, long after he was confined here at Guantanamo Bay.”