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US military judge postpones Hamdan military commission trial
[JURIST] A military judge Friday delayed the military commission trial of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] until July. On Thursday, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected [order, PDF] a bid by Hamdan to postpone the start of his military commission until the Supreme Court rules in the consolidated cases of Boumediene v...

Hamdan plans boycott of Guantanamo military commission trial
[JURIST] Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] said Monday that he will join fellow detainees in a boycott of his upcoming military commission trial...

The Military Commission Problem
Brig. Gen. Thomas HartmannThe ruling by Military Commission judge Captain Keith Allred disqualifying General Thomas Hartmann as the Legal Advisor in the Hamdan case has been widely

Is the Hamdan Sentence a Sham
Yesterday's decision by a panel of military officers at Guantanamo Bay to sentence Salim Ahmed Hamdan to five and a half years in prison came as a surprise to many. Given that the military judge presiding over the trial, Navy...

Gitmo Prosecutor to Testify on Behalf of Prosecuted
Colonel Morris D. Davis, the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay, has agreed to testify on behalf of Salim Hamdan, a driver for Osama bin Laden, because Davis has "significant doubt about whether [the military commission system] will deliver full, fair and open hearings," the New York Times reported...

Prosecutor Says Hamdan Heard Bin Laden Describe Target of United 93
When the prosecutor delivered his opening statement in the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan — Osama bin Laden’s former driver — he said he would show that Hamdan heard bin Laden describe the target of United Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed in a field just outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 44 [...

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