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Bin Laden's Former Driver Sentenced to 5 1/2 Years
Hamdan Receives Credit for Time Served, Could Be Released in 5 Months
By Jerry Markon and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 7, 2008; 4:16 PM
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Aug. 7 -- A military jury has sentenced Osama bin Laden's former driver to 5 1/2 years in prison Thursday after he was convicted of providing material support to terrorists in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.
The judge gave Salim Ahmed Hamdan credit for the slightly more than five years he has been held at Guantanamo, so he could be released in five months. But the U.S. government has argued it can detain Hamdan and other "enemy combatants" indefinitely as long as the war on terrorism continues.
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