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"Firm's unlikely client: Bin Laden's ex-driver; Seattle lawyers taking on Bush, Guantanamo."

"Firm's unlikely client: Bin Laden's ex-driver; Seattle lawyers taking on Bush, Guantanamo." Today's edition of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer contains an article that begins, "With corporate clients such as The Boeing Co. and more than a third of a billion dollars in annual revenue, it might seem odd that lawyers from the Seattle firm of Perkins Coie would find themselves defending a dirt-poor Yemeni tribesman with a fourth-grade education. But the tribesman is Osama bin Laden's former driver. And defending him, the lawyers say, means checking the power of the president of the United States and exposing inhumane conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison."

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).