Bin Laden Driver in War Crimes Trial
August 5, 2008
World News IN BRIEF
*GUANTANAMO BAY Osama bin Laden’s driver gave vital services to “the world’s most dangerous terrorist,” a prosecutor told jurors on Monday in the first US war crimes trial at Guantanamo. But defence lawyers for Yemeni captive Salim Hamdan, 38, argued that he was merely a hired labourer captured in 2001 in Afghanistan, where he had worked in Bin Laden’s motor. He faces life in prison if convicted.
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