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| Bin Laden's Former Driver Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years in Prison - 5 months left to serve | |
| 2008-08-07 | |
A military jury has reached a verdict on the sentence for Usama bin Laden's driver at the first Guantanamo Bay war crimes trial.
Salim Hamdan faces up to life in prison, and prosecutors are seeking a sentence of at least 30 years. The verdict is to be announced by the same panel of six U.S. military officers that convicted Hamdan of supporting terrorism. He was acquitted of charges that he conspired in terrorist attacks. Hamdan pleaded for leniency earlier Thursday, saying he regretted the loss of "innocent lives" in bin Laden's attacks. | |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #7 Hey how about I cut my own throat. Save some time. Traitors. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2008-08-07 20:28 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 2008-08-07 17:32 |
| #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 2008-08-07 17:17 |
| #2 Did he have a jury of his peers? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2008-08-07 17:02 |
| #1 Prosecuters gotta be wondering why he wasted the friggin time. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-08-07 16:54 |