Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Breaking: Salim Hamdan Found Guilty at Gitmo

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He was Osama bin-Laden's driver and now he's the first Gitmo detainee convicted by military tribunal:

A U.S. military jury Wednesday convicted Osama bin Laden's driver of war crimes -- making him the first war-on-terror captive convicted by contested tribunal at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The jury announced the verdict against Salim Hamdan at 10:16 a.m.

It cleared him of the more serious crime of conspiracy but convicted him of multiple counts of providing material support for terror.

Conviction can carry a maximum life imprisonment.

The six U.S. officers who convicted him next will deliberate on his sentence.
This is another successful chapter in the Global War on Terror. President Bush has always said that we would use law enforcement in conjunction with military might and he was right on target. We'll hear the screaming from Amnesty International and others like Ramsey Clark that the fix was in but it seemed to be quite open and straight forward.

Now let's convict that SOB Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and send him to meet his 40- virgins.

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