Posted on 11/24/2008 6:22:39 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Alleged Bin Laden Driver Headed for Yemen Convicted Gitmo Detainee to Serve Out Sentence in Home Country By LUIS MARTINEZ
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, 2008—
Convicted Guantanamo detainee Salim Hamdan will soon be extradited to his home country of Yemen to serve out the remainder of the five-month term imposed by a military commission this summer for his material support of terrorism, ABC News has learned.
At year's end, when his sentence is over, it will be up to Yemen to decide what, if any, restrictions on his freedom will be imposed, a senior defense official told ABC News.
The man, once alleged to be a driver and bodyguard for Osama bin Laden, was convicted by a military panel in August and given a five-and-a-half-year sentence, much less than the 30-year sentence that military prosecutors had been seeking.
The military judge in the case then decided that Hamdan should receive credit for the five years and one month he had already served as a detainee. That reduced his sentence to five months.
At the time he was sentenced, Pentagon officials said Hamdan would likely return to the detainee population at Guantanamo for indefinite detention because another military panel had already determined him to be an enemy combatant.
Privately, they expressed disappointment that the court had granted such a lenient sentence.
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Aren’t we going to set him up in business? What about reparations?
Just a foreshadow of what the US courts will do when all the Gitmo prisoners are transferred to the mainland.
Drive the world's most predominate terrorist around and get to go home.
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