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stoptheaclu.com - 8/15/2008
Bin Ladens Driver Found Guilty by Military Tribunal
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The ACLU are sure to crying about human rights violations any minute now. 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 ...

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Pirate's Cove — ... After years of litigation a verdict was finally reached for Salim Hamdan, Osama Bin Laden’s driver and detainee accused of war crimes. While cleared of conspiracy he was convicted on multiple counts of material support for terrorism. Legal groups ...

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