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Bin Laden driver released from Guantanamo, headed home
Idaho Statesman ^ | Jan. 13, 2009 | Carol Rosenberg

Posted on 01/15/2009 9:54:18 PM PST by FocusNexus

The Pentagon early Tuesday morning sent Osama bin Laden's driver home to Yemen, a month before the first Guantanamo captive convicted of war crimes by a military jury completed his 66-month prison sentence.

Salim Hamdan, 40, had been held prisoner by American forces for seven years.

He was being returned to his homeland under a diplomatic deal that will have him finish his sentence in detention in his homeland, according to military sources familiar with the arrangement.

(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; binladen; gitmo; hamdan; terrortrials; wot
Who would have believed that this could ever happen, if asked on Sept 12, 2001.
1 posted on 01/15/2009 9:54:19 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: FocusNexus

Send him to live with Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid.


2 posted on 01/15/2009 9:56:51 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: FocusNexus
He was being returned to his homeland under a diplomatic deal that will have him finish his sentence in detention in his homeland,

He'll be out within a week.

3 posted on 01/15/2009 9:58:19 PM PST by abigailsmybaby (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
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To: FocusNexus
I thought the inauguration was next Tuesday, not last Tuesday.
4 posted on 01/15/2009 10:02:19 PM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at I00 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: FocusNexus

Maybe not on Sept 12, 2001, but when I spent a year there, I realized that the only way sh*theads were going to be released was political.

We sent lots of guys home and we sat a scratched our heads and said, why?

Politics, my friend, politics.

61 out of about 600 have returned to the fight. That is a 10% rate, but hey, it’s ok...they really love us.

The only MF’s they got left are the worst of the worst. They are not the 10% who will conduct jihad, the are the 100% who will.

I’m personally waiting for the guy who told me when he got out he was going to look me up on the internet and kill my family.

I got a .45 to assist him in his endeavor.


5 posted on 01/15/2009 10:03:45 PM PST by occamrzr06
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To: FocusNexus

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162838/posts

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has freed Osama bin Laden’s former
driver after he served out his prison term following his
return home from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in November, his lawyer said on Sunday.

“Salim Hamdan was released on Thursday to live with his
family in Sanaa,” attorney Khaled al-Ansi told Reuters.
He said Hamdan had signed a pledge not to commit any
violent acts.


6 posted on 01/15/2009 10:05:23 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Obama, Change America will die for.)
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To: FocusNexus

> Who would have believed that this could ever happen, if asked on Sept 12, 2001.

Brilliant! He will go back to Bid Laden just like a homing pigeon. A bunker buster bomb will shortly follow thereafter.

You Yanks have the most brilliant armed forces in the world!


7 posted on 01/15/2009 10:11:27 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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I hope someone had the foresight to stick some plutonium under his cot the last few weeks.


8 posted on 01/15/2009 11:00:58 PM PST by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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should say: HEADED HOME IN A BODY BAG.


9 posted on 01/16/2009 12:43:29 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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Hopefully they planted a chip in him. He’s headed back to his pals.


10 posted on 01/16/2009 1:14:41 AM PST by tvdog12345
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