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Bin Laden's driver denied POW status
A US military judge on Thursday ruled that Osama bin Ladens former driver is an unlawful enemy combatant and can be tried before a military commission at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, thus denying him prisoner of war status. Salim Hamdan, 37, a native of Yemen, was Bin Ladens personal driver in Afghanistan, and was captured in November 2001 with surface-to-air missiles in his car. Hamdans defence had argued that he was not a fighter, but merely a driver transporting weapons.Posted by: Fred 2007-12-24 |
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