US seeks 30 years for bin Laden driver

[sabra]

Source: AP

Salim Hamdan today pleaded with a military jury to spare him from a life in prison, saying that he worked as Osama bin Laden's driver only because he needed a job. Prosecutors asked for a sentence of no less than 30 years.

Hamdan, a Yemeni, was convicted by the six Pentagon-appointed jurors at the Guantanamo Bay trial of aiding terrorism by chauffeuring bin Laden around Afghanistan at the time of the 9/11 attacks. But Hamdan said he merely had a "relationship of respect" with bin Laden, as would any other employee.

"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," he said, reading in Arabic from a prepared statement.

The five-man, one-woman jury found Hamdan guilty of aiding terrorism but acquitted him of conspiracy Wednesday at the first US war crimes trial since World War II.



Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-seeks-30-years-for-bin-laden-driver-888060.html

[YOY]

1. I wonder what happened to Hitlers Chauffeur...

I wonder if anyone had the brains to say...yeah...a Nazi but he drove a car...not a Panzer!

[Solly Mack]

2. No shame. None.

[Demeter]

3. I Hope The Entire White House Driving Pool and Secret Service Resign Today

After all, they are aiding and abetting the greatest war criminals since Hitler and Stalin. They could get life in prison in the Hague.

[zbdent]

4. "Taxi!"

"You're under arrest for transporting known criminals ... to jail with you ..."

[LynnTheDem]

5. Absolute total bullshit. Charged with a non-existent crime in a bush regime

secret trial.

What crap. Of course they bloody well hate us, after George W. bUsh has proven everything al Qaeda and OBL has ever said about us to be true.