by Lionel Bascom — August 8th, 2008 — 1 comment
In Cuba the press, including the Washington Post, report that a former driver for Osama bin Laden was sentenced by a military jury Thursday to 5 1/2 years in prison for supporting terrorism, a far shorter term than demanded by government prosecutors. The judge gave Salim Ahmed Hamdan credit for five years and one month of his pretrial incarceration at Guantanamo Bay, making him eligible for release from custody in five months, the Post reports.
“The sentence was a stunning rebuke to prosecutors who had insisted on a prison term of at least 30 years and portrayed Hamdan throughout the trial as a hardened al-Qaeda warrior. The jury of six military officers convicted him Wednesday of supporting al-Qaeda by driving and guarding bin Laden and ferrying weapons for the terror group, but he was acquitted of terror conspiracy.”
9:51 AM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, The Attack, Related Stories, Terrorist Threat, Politics
So, in January, he’ll be back in his little al- qaeda pack, happily plotting another terrorist activity. Oh goodie! Ain’t life just.
Jeanne · August 11th, 2008 at 10:33 pm