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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 --- 14 days ago http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/08/hamdan_convicted_of_war_
 by James Oliphant Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the first detainee at Guantanamo to face a military commission, was found guilty Wednesday of supporting terrorism. The Miami Herald reported that the six-member jury delivered its verdict after only two days of deliberations. It cleared Hamdan of the more serious charge of conspiracy. He faces life in prison, be it at Gitmo or somewhere in the United States. Hamdan, who served as Osama bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan, was not viewed by the Pentagon as a high-level terrorist, and, in fact, written statements from 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed portrayed him rather as a flunky, someone good for changing jeep tires. His civilian and military lawyers argued Hamdan was being made a scapegoat for the U.S.' failure to capture bin Laden and railed against the commission process, which they said was too tilted in favor of the prosecution. Still, Hamdan was a member of al Qaeda and prosecutors argued he transported weapons and attended terror training camps. He was found with two surface-to-air missile in his trunk when captured. His conviction sets the stage for the trial of as many as 80 more detainees on similar or more serious charges. Hamdan can appeal his conviction to the newly established Court of Military Commission Review, and from there up to the federal appeals court in Washington and then finally the Supreme Court. There should be no shortage of appealable issues, especially with r ... |
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