Bin Laden driver given 66 months
Osama Bin Laden’s former driver has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison at the first US military trial in Guantanamo Bay.
Salim Hamdan had been convicted on Wednesday of supporting terrorism but acquitted of conspiracy to murder.
Prosecutors had demanded a sentence of not less than 30 years but Hamdan, a Yemeni, had pleaded for leniency.
The military judge earlier ruled Hamdan could have five years’ credit for time served so may be free in six months.
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The jury of six US military officers, not the judge, imposed the sentence under the tribunal rules.
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“It is my duty as president [of the jury] to inform you that this military commission sentences you to be confined for 66 months,” a juror told Hamdan.
In his earlier appeal for leniency viagra to the jury, Hamdan said in a prepared statement: “It’s true there are work opportunities in Yemen, but not at the level I needed after I got married and not to the level of ambitions that I had in my future.”
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He said he regretted the loss of “innocent lives”.
The White House earlier said the trial was “fair”, although the defence team had announced an appeal after the conviction.
Hamdan, who is aged about 40, had admitted working for Bin Laden in Afghanistan from 1997 to 2001 for $200 (?99) a month, but said he worked for wages, not to wage war on the US.
Convicting him on five counts of aiding terrorism, the jury accepted he was a member of al-Qaeda who had served as Bin Laden’s armed bodyguard and driver while knowing that the al-Qaeda leader was plotting attacks against the US.
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But he was found not guilty on three other counts of aiding terrorism, alleging that he knew that his work would be used for terrorism and that he provided comprar viagra surface-to-air missiles to al-Qaeda.
He was also cleared of two charges of conspiracy, alleging that he was part of the al-Qaeda effort to attack the US – the most serious charges he faced.
About 270 suspects remain in detention in Guantanamo Bay.
Among the dozens of other inmates due to be tried there in the coming months are men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks.
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