August 8, 2008But will bin Laden's driver be freed?Today we're working on an editorial that will run some time next week about the decision and sentence in the case of Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. In a stacked, quasi-judicial proceeding, he still was not convicted of the most severe charges. Sentenced to five and a half years, he has less than six months left after being held for five years already. The question lingers whether the military will actually let him go. The detainee system is so broken that even after what passes for justice these days says release him, Hamdan could still be held indefinitely. |
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August 8, 2008
But will bin Laden's driver be freed?
Today we're working on an editorial that will run some time next week about the decision and sentence in the case of Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. In a stacked, quasi-judicial proceeding, he still was not convicted of the most severe charges. Sentenced to five and a half years, he has less than six months left after being held for five years already.
The question lingers whether the military will actually let him go. The detainee system is so broken that even after what passes for justice these days says release him, Hamdan could still be held indefinitely.
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[August 8, 2008 1:02 PM]
Henry"Hamdan could still be held indefinitely."
Good. Better yet, give him a stout length of rope and a Dukes of Hazzard DVD set and let him save us some money.