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| Yemen releases bin Laden's former driver |
| 2009-01-10 |
| Gonna repent, Salim? Yeah... That's good. Go and sin no more. SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — The lawyer for Osama bin Laden's former driver says his client has been released from a Yemeni prison after serving out his sentence. Lawyer Khaled Al-Anas says Salim Hamdan was released Friday. A Yemeni Interior Ministry official has confirmed the release but says it happened Saturday. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. A U.S. military tribunal convicted Hamdan in August of aiding al-Qaida and sentenced him to 5 1/2 years in prison. He had already served five years and a month at Guantanamo Bay prison at the time. The U.S. transferred Hamdan to his home country Yemen at the end of 2008 to serve out the rest of his sentence Yeah, a whole 2 months of it. But his old buddies at Guantanamo don't appear to be too happy... Washington lawyer David Remes, who represents 17 Yemenis, said some of his clients launched the latest hunger strike after Yemeni Salim Hamdan went home in November, a month shy of completion of his 66-month prison sentence."They’ve actually gone ballistic at the fact that Hamdan, who was convicted of supporting terrorism, was released and they, who have been charged with nothing, continue to languish there," said Remes, who met with clients before Christmas. Long-held detainees, most held without charge since early 2002, were "elated" that Hamdan was leaving the prison camps, Remes said. But, "that doesn’t mitigate the perverseness of the situation. If an ordinary detainee knew that all you had to be (was) Osama’s servant to get out, a lot of them would have fabricated confessions that they were Osama’s servant." Hey, I got mine, guys. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #4 Isn't this about the time a Hellfire fills the rear view mirror? |
| Posted by: ed 2009-01-10 19:17 |
| #3 "and wear a uniform. No, the bad teefs doesn't count" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-01-10 19:00 |
| #2 they, who have been charged with nothing, continue to languish there Serves you right, ya mooks. Next time sign up for a real war - one with a start and and end and everyone goes home when it's over. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-01-10 18:29 |
| #1 "good signal on the implant, sir" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-01-10 17:44 |