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Philadelphia Inquirer
August 14, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The military jurors who gave Osama bin Laden's driver a light sentence for supporting terrorism want him freed from Guantanamo once he finishes it in December and were frustrated to learn the military can hold him indefinitely, one of the jurors said yesterday.
In an interview, the juror said the panel of six U.S. military officers did not learn until the trial ended last Thursday that the Pentagon could hold Salim Hamdan as an "enemy combatant," even after he completes his sentence.
"After all the effort that we put in to get somebody a fair trial . . . and then to say no matter what we did, it didn't matter - I don't see that as a positive step," said the juror. The judge at Hamdan's trial declared that the jurors' identities must be kept secret.
The juror said Hamdan "was just misled and the victim of circumstance."
-- AP
August 14, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The military jurors who gave Osama bin Laden's driver a light sentence for supporting terrorism want him freed from Guantanamo once he finishes it in December and were frustrated to learn the military can hold him indefinitely, one of the jurors said yesterday.
In an interview, the juror said the panel of six U.S. military officers did not learn until the trial ended last Thursday that the Pentagon could hold Salim Hamdan as an "enemy combatant," even after he completes his sentence.
"After all the effort that we put in to get somebody a fair trial . . . and then to say no matter what we did, it didn't matter - I don't see that as a positive step," said the juror. The judge at Hamdan's trial declared that the jurors' identities must be kept secret.
The juror said Hamdan "was just misled and the victim of circumstance."
-- AP