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Former bin Laden driver to be transferred from Guantanamo
Nov 24, 2008, 22:10 GMT
Washington - Osama bin Laden's former driver and bodyguard will be moved from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Yemen, where he will serve out the remainder of his sentence, CNN reported Monday.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan was convicted of providing material support to terrorism in August and sentenced to five years and six months in prison, but the military judge included the years he had already spent in Guantanamo.
Hamdan, 37, was the second conviction under the commissions. Australian David Hicks pleaded guilty in 2007 and was sent back to his native country to serve out the remainder of his sentence. He is now free.
CNN did not identify the sources used in the report.
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I agree. If you want to stay out of Guantanamo, stay at home. I have no sympathy for them any more than I do for Nick Berg. You suffer the consequences of your own decisions.
..biggest error was to not get a constitutional Amendment to deal with this new type of combatant, when 9/11 happened. Gitmo should NOT exist, except to house LEGITIMATE combatants.
Everyone else should be executed, forthwith.
Now, we run it endlessly through the courts, dicing it up finer and finer, when we should be putting these non-legitimate combatants to death.
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JustinNov 25th, 2008 - 19:14:26
People like Hicks and every other third country national we find in Afghanistan or Iraq should never go to Guantanamo. They should be executed so they can gain martyrdom, which is all they want anyway. They aren't real mujahadeen, they are little misled boys who want to play a man's game but cry cry cry when they realize the consequences are real. Reality check: You left your country to support a terrorist organization that is at war with the US. You should accept the bullet waiting for you in some GIs magazine.
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