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subject_name = Salim Ahmed Hamdan


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image_caption = Salim Ahmed Hamdan learns Judge Keith J. Allred's June 4 2007 ruling that the military commissions lack jurisdiction to try "enemy combatants".
date_of_birth = Birth year and age|1970
place_of_birth = Wadi Hadhramaut, Yemen
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id_number = 149cite web |url=http://www.dod.mil/news/May2006/d20060515%20List.pdf |title=List of Individuals Detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba from January 2002 through May 15, 2006 |format=PDF |publisher=U.S. Department of Defense |date=2006-05-15 |accessdate=2007-09-09]
group = al-Qaeda
alias = Saqr al-Jedawi cite web |date=2006-01-08 |url = http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/magazine/08yemen.html?ei=5088&en=0a4698b2c80a9a03&ex=1294376400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all | title=The Bush Administration vs. Salim Hamdan |work=New York Times |accessdate=2007-08-01 | first=Jonathan |last=Mahler ]
charge = Conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism but charges were dropped on June 5, 2007cite web |date=2007-06-05 | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,2095889,00.html| title = Profile: Salim Ahmed Hamdan| format = HTML | publisher = The Guardian| accessdate = 2007-08-01 | first=Mark |last=Tran ]
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spouse = Um Fatima
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children = Two daughters born 2000, 2002

Salim Ahmed Hamdan (ArB|سليم احمد حمدان) (born circa 1970) is a Yemeni, captured during the invasion of Afghanistan, and imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. He admits to being Osama bin Laden's personal driver and bodyguard, claiming he needed the $200 monthly salary that came with the job. [CanWest News Service, [http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=4797dfae-aba0-449f-9371-bafc22b3f6c4&k=12631 Lawyer alleges preferential treatment of Khadr] , April 8 2008]

He was charged with "conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism" but a judge declared the judicial system in place at the time unconstitutional and those charges were dropped on June 5, 2007.cite web |date=2007-06-05 |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,2095889,00.html |title=Profile: Salim Ahmed Hamdan |publisher=The Guardian |accessdate=2007-08-01 |first=Mark |last=Tran] He was then held, without being charged, as an enemy combatant. He was brought up on new charges on July 21, 2008, and found guilty of "providing material support" to al Qaeda, but was cleared of terrorism conspiracy charges. [] He was sentenced to five-and-a-half years of imprisonment by a military jury, being counted as having already served five years of the sentence at the time. A Pentagon spokesman noted that Hamdan may still be considered an "enemy combatant" upon completing his sentence and detained indefinitely. [cite news
url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/07/hamdan.trial/index.html
title=Bin Laden driver could be held by U.S. after sentence
publisher=CNN.com
date=2008-08-07
accessdate=2008-08-07]

Hamdan's numerous legal efforts, as one of the first detainees at Guantanamo Bay to be given formal charges, have been a focal point for debate and criticism relating to the questions of indefinite detention in the "War on Terror", the ability of Guantanamo Bay detainees to petition for habeas corpus, the validity of military commissions rather than civil trials for alleged terrorists, and the correct implementation of the Geneva Conventions for terrorist suspects. His case was the instigation for the United States Supreme Court decision "Hamdan v. Rumsfeld" (2006), and his case has been covered by major U.S. news organizations since 2004.

Capture in Afghanistan

Salim Hamdan was captured in southern Afghanistan on November 24, 2001. According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, he was captured in a car with four other alleged al-Qaeda associates, including Osama bin laden's son-in-law, three of whom were killed in a firefight with Afghan forces. Hamdan and the other surviving associate in the car were later turned over to U.S. forces. [cite news |title=Biographical information on Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan |work=Associated Press |date=2007-12-05 ]

Trial timeline

On July 14, 2004, the Department of Defense formally charged Salim Ahmed Hamdan with "conspiracy", for trial by military commission under the President’s Order of November 13, 2001.cite web |date=2001-11-13 |url=http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/tribunals/ushamdan704.html |title=U.S. v. Salim Ahmed HamdanMilitary Tribunal Conspiracy Charges |publisher=U.S. government |accessdate=2007-08-01 ] cite web |date=2007 |url=http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/inthecourts/supreme_court_hamdan.htm |title=The Case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan |publisher=humanrightsfirst.org |accessdate=2007-08-01 ]

On November 8, 2004 the United States District Court for the District of Columbia halted Hamdan's military commission because no "competent tribunal" had determined whether Mr Hamdan was a POW (as required by the Geneva Conventions), and because regardless of such determination, the commission violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

On October 22, 2004, General John D. Altenburg, the retired officer in overall charge of the commissions, removed three of the six original Military Commission members to avoid the potential of bias.cite news |first=Josh |last=White |page=A12 |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52680-2004Oct21.html |title=Panel for Detainees' Cases Cut in Half |work=Washington Post |date=2004-10-22 ]

The Bush administration appealed the ruling that halted the military commissions. In the meantime, the Department of Defense started Combatant Status Review Tribunals of all the Guantanamo detainees. The tribunals extended from July 2004 through March 2005.

On July 17, 2005, a three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned Hamdan's appeal.cite news |url=http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/13294644p-14136927c.html |title=In limbo at 'Gitmo': Appeals court rules against detainees |work=Sacramento Bee |date=2005-07-25 |page=B4] cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1022154&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 |title=High Court Asked to Take Guantanamo Case |publisher=ABC News (Associated Press) |date=2005-08-09] The panel said that the Geneva Convention does not apply to members of al-Qaida. The military commissions were set back in motion. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was one of the judges on that panel, and voted against Hamdan's appeal, shortly before being nominated for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

On November 7, 2005, the Supreme Court issued a writ of certiorari agreeing to review the decision of the DC Circuit Court.cite web |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5399108,00.html |title=Supreme Court to Hear Tribunals Challenge |work=The Guardian |date=2005-11-07] Roberts recused himself due to his earlier participation in the case.

On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the military commissions ordered for Hamdan and other detainees violated the UCMJ and the Geneva Convention.cite web |url=http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2006/06/decisions_5.html |title=Decisions: Hamdan decided, military commissions invalid |work=SCOTUSblog |date=2006-06-29 |first=Lyle |last=Denniston]

CSRT-Yescite web
url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000101-000200.pdf#48
title=Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Hamdan, Salim Ahmed Salim
date=16 September 2004
author=OARDEC
pages=page 48
publisher=United States Department of Defense
accessdate=2007-12-04]

: "'a. Detainee is a member of Al-Qaeda.:# Detainee admits that he served as a personal driver to Usama Bin Laden (UBL) both before and after the attacks of September 11, 2001.:# In addition to serving as UBL's driver, detainee served as a member of UBL's bodyguard detachment and armed himself with a weapon.:# In the above roles, detainee gained substantial knowledge of al Qaida operations and came in contact with a number of highly placed al Qaida figures, such as Abu Hafs sic, Saif Al Adel sic (al Qaida Security Chief), and Abu Zabaydah sic.:# One of detainee's known aliases was on a list of captured al Qaida members that was discovered on a computer hard drive associated with a senior Al-Qaida member.

: "'b. Detainee engaged in hostilities against the US or its coalition partners.:# While detainee denies ever personally receiving training at the Al-Farouq training camp, he admits transporting UBL there, so UBL could provide training and lectures to al Qaida trainees.:# Detainee was captured in a vehicle by Northern Alliance forces in the vicinity of Kandahar in possession of a weapon.

Hamdan's transcript was nine pages long.cite web |url=http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt/Set_51_3490-3642.pdf#53
format=PDF
title=Summarized Transcript from Salim Ahmed Hamdan's "Combatant Status Review Tribunal"
date=date redacted
author=OARDEC
publisher=U.S. Department of Defense
pages=53-61] Eight pages of it were consumed with exhausting translation problems, and trying to clarify which documents, sent by Hamdan's lawyer, to Hamdan, should be submitted to the Tribunal.

Hamdan was asked one question -- was he forced to drive for bin Laden, or was he recruited? Hamdan referred the Tribunal to his affidavit.

There is a hand-written note on the final page of his transcript saying that: "affidavits not provided as they are filed under seal in federal court."

Documents show that Hamdan was beaten and threatened by members of the Afghani Northern Alliance after engaging them in combat, but before being handed over to U.S. forces. Once under U.S. custody he was deemed a high ranking terrorist with possible knowledge of Usama Bin Laden's whereabouts. He experienced intense interrogation methods, and was kept in isolation for upwards of eight months.

On July 14, 2004, under congressional AUMF authority the Department of Defense formally referred charges against Hamdan, for trial by military commission under the President’s Order of November 13, 2001. He was charged with terrorist activities including serving as Osama Bin Laden’s personal bodyguard and driver.

Hamdan purchased vehicles for Bin Laden’s security detail which were used to evade capture after the attacks on September 11, 2001 and delivered weapons to al Qaeda members after U.S. military operations began in Afghanistan.

upreme Court opinion

On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court delivered its opinion in "Hamdan v. Rumsfeld". Justice Roberts recused himself due to earlier participation in the case as a judge on the DC circuit court prior to his nomination for chief justice. The case also considered whether the Supreme Court had the jurisdiction to enforce the articles of the 1949 Geneva convention and whether Congress had the power to prevent the Court from reviewing the case of an accused enemy combatant before his military commission. In a 5-3 plurality, the Court held that the military commisions which were established to try the detainees at Guantanamo Bay lack "the power to proceed because its structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the four Geneva Conventions signed in 1949." [ [http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-184.pdf "Hamdan v. Rumsfeld", Supreme Court Syllabus] , pg. 4., point 4.] The ruling specifies Common Article 3 of the Third Geneva Convention as the provision that was violated.

In response to the Supreme Court decision, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006, in an attempt grant the President the necessary authority to create the commissions. Hamdan's trial is scheduled to begin in June 2006.

Charged under the Military Commissions Act

New charges were laid against Hamdan on May 10 2007.cite news
url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/4794735.html
date=2007-05-10
title=After 5 years at Gitmo, alleged bin Laden aide charged
publisher=Houston Chronicle
accessdate=2007-06-01]

Hamdan is charged with conspiracy and providing support for terrorism.According to the "Houston Chronicle", Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift, Hamdan's lawyer, argued that conspiracy charges were inappropriate for junior people like Hamdan.According to the "Houston Chronicle", Commander Jeffrey Gordon, a DoD spokesman, disputed the assertion that Hamdan was just a low-level player.

Charges dismissed

In two separate rulings all charges were dropped against Hamdan and Canadian youth Omar Khadr, on the 4th June 2007.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/128137.html
title=War court tosses case against young captive
work=Miami Herald
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=2007-06-04
accessdate=2007-06-04] Army Judge Colonel Peter Brownback, and US Navy Judge Captain Keith J. Allred, ruled that the men's Combatant Status Review Tribunals had merely confirmed the men's enemy combatants status; while the Military Commissions Act only gave the Guantanamo Military Commissions the authority to try "unlawful enemy combatants", they lacked the jurisdiction to try the men. James Westhead of the "BBC" said that the court ruling, which affects all 380 Guantanamo inmates, represents a "stunning blow" against the Bush administrations efforts at bringing the inmates to trial.cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6720315.stm
date=2007-06-05
title=Guantanamo pair charges dropped
publisher=BBC News
accessdate=2007-06-05]

According to the "BBC", following the rulings, the US government appears to have three legal options open to it:
* Scrap the legal process and start again.
* Redefine the inmates as "unlawful" enemy combatants at a separate hearing.
* Appeal the court ruling. But there is no appeals court, the "military commission review" has not been set up yet.

According to the "Washington Post" the ruling made more likely the passage of a Senate bill restoring access to the US Court system to the Guantanamo captives.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/06/AR2007060602302.html
title=Stuck in Guantanamo: President Bush tried to create a new legal system for terrorism suspects. He created a quagmire instead.
date=2007-06-07
publisher=Washington Post
accessdate=2007-06-07
page=A26] The "Washington Post" speculated that the ruling might force whatever trials take place to take place in the civilian court system, or in the already established military
courts martial system.

Deemed an "illegal enemy combatant"

On December 21 2007 Allred heard arguments, and made his ruling, that Hamdan was an "illegal enemy combatant", who could be tried by a military commission.cite news
url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iulcMI2VbLcbTk18sP2rBMI1YdHg
title=US military judge denies bin Laden's driver POW status
publisher=Agence France Presse
date=December 21 2007
accessdate=2007-12-21]
Lieutenant Brian Mizer, one of Hamdan's lawyers, said his team had introduced evidence that:

February 8 2008 hearing

A hearing was convened on February 8 2008.cite news
url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=d4ab2d55-75a2-4642-8565-d40ff79fc319&k=29442
title=Records missing at Guantanamo Bay
publisher=Canwest News Service
author=Steven Edwards
date= February 7, 2008
accessdate=2008-02-01]

Mental stability

Hamdan's lawyers have filed a request with Allred requesting he be moved from solitary confinement.cite news
url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004169413_apguantanamobinladensdriver07.html
title=Lawyers: Gitmo Detainee Breaking Down
publisher=Seattle Times
author=Michael Melia
date= February 8, 2008
accessdate=2008-02-09] cite news
url=http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=630f0bed-08ad-45e7-8d70-2f87537c3406&k=70999
title=Isolation driving former bin Laden driver 'towards mental instability'
publisher=Canwest News Service
author=Steven Edwards
date= February 8, 2008
accessdate=2008-02-09] cite news
url=http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/hamdan-urges-judge-to-drop-military.php
title=Hamdan lawyers urge judge to drop military commission charges
publisher=The Jurist
author=Mike Rosen-Molina
date= February 7, 2008
accessdate=2008-02-09] They argue that solitary confinement is having such a negative impact on his mental stability that it is impairing his ability to assist in his own defense.
Andrea Prasow wrote: quotation|"I do not believe that Mr. Hamdan will be able to materially assist in his own defense if his conditions do not improve.

His attorneys say he had only been allowed two exercise periods in the previous month.

Hamdan had been housed in camp 4, the camp for the most compliant captives until December 2006. Captives in camp 4 wear white uniforms, sleep in communal dormitories and can use an exercise yard and mingle with other captives for up to 20 hours a day. Hamdan was moved to camp 5, where captives spend almost the entire day in isolation in a windowless cell.

Emily Keram, a psychologist examined Hamdan and, according to the "Seattle Post Intelligencer":

Hamdan's lawyers compared the treatment accorded to Omar Khadr with that accorded to Hamdan. They have requested Khadr appear before Allred to explain why he was housed in Camp Four. They pointed out that Khadr had been allowed a phone call to his family.

According to the International Herald Tribune, his lawyers said quotation|"he is suicidal, hears voices, has flashbacks, talks to himself and says the restrictions of Guantánamo "boil his mind." [ [http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/26/america/gitmo.php Guantánamo drives prisoners insane, lawyers say] , By William Glaberson, April 26, 2008, International Herald Tribune]

Missing records

Hamdan's Defense expressed a concern that the Prosecution had been withholding some of Hamdan's records from them.
Lieutenant Commander Timothy Stone told Allred that they had turned over copies of records, except for those from 2002 -- which they had been unable to locate. However, he assured Allred they were still looking for them.

Chief Prosecutor Colonel Lawrence Morris guessed that the missing files contained "generally innocuous stuff":quotation
"It depends on how you characterize a record . . . there are records that show what a guy eats for a meal. Every statement . . . that we are in possession of . . . the defense has."

Access to the high value detainees

Hamdan's lawyers requested access to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other thirteen high value detainees.Chief Prosecutor Morris replied:

Allred postponed ruling on Hamdan's lawyer's request.cite news
url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hIxS9uBGwlxxmS0BCdgCWrrbmBZwD8ULU3AO0
title=Judge Mulls Bin Laden's Driver Request
publisher=Associated Press
author=Michael Melia
date=February 9 2008
accessdate=2008-02-09]

Boycott

On April 29, after seven years of cooperation, Hamdan announced he was joining the on-going Boycott of Guantanamo Military Commissions, stating "America tells the whole world that it has freedom and justice. I do not see that...There are almost 100 detainees here. We do not see any rights. You do not give us the least bit of humanity...Give me a just court...Try me with a just law.'"Colson, Deborah. Human Rights First, [http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/blog/gitmo/2008/04/another-boycott-at-guantnamo-another.html Another Boycott at Guantánamo, Another Test for the Military Commission System] , April 30 2008]

July hearings

Hamdan's actual trial began on July 21 2008.cite news
url=http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/07/guantanamo-judg.html
title=Guantanamo judge bars evidence from 'highly coercive' interrogations
publisher=USA Today
author=Michael Winter
date=2008-07-21
accessdate=2008-07-21
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.usatoday.com%2Fondeadline%2F2008%2F07%2Fguantanamo-judg.html&date=2008-07-21 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2008-07-20-gitmo_N.htm
title=Jury selection today in Gitmo trial
publisher=USA Today
author=Alan Gomez, Emily Bazar
date=2008-07-21
accessdate=2008-07-21
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fnews%2Fwashington%2Fjudicial%2F2008-07-20-gitmo_N.htm&date=2008-07-21 mirror] ] On July 26, the "New York Times" reported that "Mr. Hamdan's offenses are not enumerated anywhere, but appear to include checking the oil and the tire pressure." ["New York Times", July 26, 2008.] Matt Bors, Editorial Cartoon, for the "Village Voice" and "Cleveland Free Times", August 7, 2008, found at [http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/57158/ American Association of Editorial cartoonists website] . Accessed August 22, 2008.] Matt Bors, a syndicated editorial cartoonist, lampooned the Government's case against Hamdam, as an attempt to "destroy Bin laden's vast network of enablers," which included "drivers, wives, landlords and those to feed him," as well as "his tailor."

Jury selection

Thirteen candidates for the jury went through voir dire.cite news
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/21/AR2008072100778.html?hpid=topnews
title=Guantanamo Judge Blocks Use of Some Statements
publisher=Washington Post
author=Jerry Markon
page=A01
date=2008-07-21
accessdate=2008-07-21
quote=] Five jury members, and an alternate, were selected on July 21 2008.

"Reuters" reports that the jurors identities were being kept secret.cite news
url=http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN21463432
title=US officers say they're impartial in Guantanamo case
publisher=Reuters
author=Jim Loney
date=2008-07-21
accessdate=2008-07-22
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2FlatestCrisis%2FidUSN21463432&date=2008-07-22 mirror] ] Reuters reports that a juror who was working in the Pentagon during al Qaeda's attack on the Pentagon was turned down for jury duty.

Another officer who knew the Captain of the USS "Cole" was also turned down.Reuters reported he was a former police officer, and quoted him as saying::

According to the "Associated Press" former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson's reaction to the sentence wascite news
url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j_1zsCI99c1MmBU5swZm9L_CpgWgD92EC8VG7
title=Guantanamo defendants mostly low-level figures
publisher=Associated Press
author=Mike Melia
date=2008-08-09
accessdate=2008-08-08
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fap.google.com%2Farticle%2FALeqM5j_1zsCI99c1MmBU5swZm9L_CpgWgD92EC8VG7&date=2008-08-09 mirror] ] :The "Associated Press" reported that Stimson sent an e-mail about Hamdan's conviction that said::

The American Civil Liberties Union's spokesman Ben Wizner, said::

On August 10 2008 Josh White, writing in the "Washington Post" reported that Hamdan Prosecution and Defense had discussed a plea deal in late 2006.cite news
url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/5935434.html
title=Plea deal was discussed for bin Laden's driver: 10-year sentence deemed too short, but then he got 5 1/2
publisher=Houston Chronicle
author=Josh White
date=2008-08-10
accessdate=2008-08-11
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chron.com%2Fdisp%2Fstory.mpl%2Fheadline%2Fworld%2F5935434.html&date=2008-08-11 mirror] ] He reported that Charles "Cully" Stimson, who was then the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, had agreed to make a case for a negotiated sentence of ten years. According to White Stimson said more senior Bush officials "were stubborn" and "rejected the notion of a 'mere 10 years.'"Bush administration officials had rejected the idea of a ten year sentence as too lenient.

On August 11 2008 Jess Bravin of the "Wall Street Journal" reported on interviews with one of Hamdan's jurors.cite news
url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121832872967027369.html
title=Hamdan Jury Felt Evidence Didn't Back U.S. Claim
publisher=Wall Street Journal
author=Jess Bravin
date=2008-08-11
accessdate=2008-08-11
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB121832872967027369.html&date=2008-08-11 mirror] ] Bravin reported that the juror said the verdict was not intended to be a rebuke to the Bush administration, rather, "...it came down to the evidence that we were allowed to see."

On September 26 2008 Lawrence Morris, Guantanamo's Chief Prosecutor asked for a new sentencing hearing for Hamdan.cite news
url=http://www.ksl.com/?nid=235&sid=4364297
title=Gitmo prosecutors seek resentencing for detainee
publisher=KSL
author=Mike Melia
date=2008-09-25
accessdate=2008-09-26
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ksl.com%2F%3Fnid%3D235%26sid%3D4364297&date=2008-09-26 mirror] ] Morris has requested Hamdan not be granted credit for time served, and should thus serve a further six years.The Department of Defense argues that they can continue to hold the captives who receive sentences from the Military Commissions, even after their sentences are over.

References

External links

* [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jul2004/d20040714hcc.pdf Charge Sheets (.pdf)] , "Department of Defense"
* [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/commissions_exhibits_hamdan.html Commissions Transcripts, Exhibits, and Allied Papers] , "Department of Defense"
* [http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2005/commissions_scheduling_hamdan.html Commission Scheduling] , "Department of Defense"
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/magazine/08yemen.html?pagewanted=print Detailed January 8, 2006, "New York Times" article on Hamdan case.]
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/05/AR2008050502315.html? Justice System For Detainees Is Moving At a Crawl] Washington Post May 6 2008
* [http://publicservice.evendon.net/DCHamdan_v_GatesMotionM.htm DC District Court Ruling on War Crimes Trial Motion (July 2008)]
* cite news
url=http://www.propublica.org/article/mention-of-cia-banned-from-gitmo-trial-728/
title=Mention of CIA Banned From Gitmo Trial
publisher=Propublica
author=Eric Umansky
date=2008-07-28
accessdate=2008-07-30
quote=
*cite news
url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/29/Media_faces_restrictions_at_Gitmo_trial/UPI-92981217330886/
title=Media faces restrictions at Gitmo trial
publisher=United Press International
author=
date=2008-07-29
accessdate=2008-07-29
quote=Although the U.S. Department of Defense has emphasized "transparency" as its public relations theme for the military trial of Hamdan, the freedom of the press has strict limits at Guantanamo, the newspaper said. For instance, documents used at the tribunal are often not released until months after they are filed and much of the evidence against Hamdan, the former driver of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, remains secret. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.upi.com%2FTop_News%2F2008%2F07%2F29%2FMedia_faces_restrictions_at_Gitmo_trial%2FUPI-92981217330886%2F&date=2008-07-31 mirror]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26055301 Hamdan sentenced to 5 1/2 years] msnbc August 7 2008