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Bin Laden driver could be held by U.S. after sentence

By John Hirst

Bin Laden driver could be held by U.S. after sentence

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (CNN) -- A jury of six military officers Thursday sentenced Osama bin Laden's former driver to five-and-a-half years in prison after his conviction on charges of providing material support to al Qaeda.

After Salim Haman serves his sentence, he could still be kept as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay.

He has been imprisoned at the U.S. military detention center since 2002 and has been credited with 61 months served. That means that he has five months left to serve.

There is something wrong with a system of justice which firstly keeps you in prison without charge and trial for 6 years, then puts you on trial at a military court and you receive a sentence, when the sentence is expired instead of releasing you they keep you in prison indefinitely.

Hello America, he was just a fucking driver! Why don't you now go out and find out who supplied the driver with petrol?

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).