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2008-08-07 Home Front: WoT

Bin Laden's Former Driver Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years in Prison - 5 months left to serve

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Posted by Sherry 2008-08-07 16:03|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Prosecuters gotta be wondering why he wasted the friggin time.

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-07 16:54|| 2008-08-07 16:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Did he have a jury of his peers?

Posted by Iblis 2008-08-07 17:02|| 2008-08-07 17:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Jury of his peers?
I have a quick mental image of a solid steel box with the jurors (and their weaponry) locked safely inside.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-08-07 17:17|| 2008-08-07 17:17|| Front Page Top

#4 If we had followed the Geneva Conventions as they apply to illegal combatants, this POS would have faced a firing squad 5 years ago.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-08-07 17:32|| 2008-08-07 17:32|| Front Page Top

#5 So in 5 months he'll go back to Afghanistan and, in a few months, the locals will kill him in a clan-feud.

Posted by mhw 2008-08-07 18:03|| 2008-08-07 18:03|| Front Page Top

#6 I am actually satisfied with this sentence. The left and their "moral" squad have been harping on how this is a show trial and military tribunals are not fair. However, this is close to a sentence he would have gotten in civilian court and the other charges were dismissed.
I think he was just a low level thug that was trusted enough to drive the head cheese. While I doubt he has had a change of heart and "regrets" the lives lost, I think his career as a terrorist is over. He is just gonna hide in a hole somewhere and be totted out by the press every decade anniversary of 9/11 and will die in his 50s a lonely and broken man.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-08-07 19:21|| 2008-08-07 19:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey how about I cut my own throat. Save some time.

Traitors.

Posted by Hellfish 2008-08-07 20:28|| 2008-08-07 20:28|| Front Page Top

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