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Miami HeraldPosted on Thursday, 10.30.08
Navy judge refuses to re-sentence Bin Laden driver
A judge has spurned a Pentagon prosecutor's request to revisit the 66-month sentence of Osama bin Laden's driver on grounds he didn't have authority to grant credit for time serve
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- A war court judge has flatly refused a Pentagon effort to revisit the soon-to-expire prison sentence of Osama bin Laden's driver at the first U.S. war crimes tribunal since World War II.
Navy Capt. Keith Allred ruling means the prison sentence for Salim Hamdan, 40, will end by New Year's under a military jury sentence that granted him time served for more than 61 months in prison at this remote U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.
The jury of five colonels and lieutenant colonels, led by a U.S. Navy captain, convicted Hamdan Aug. 6 of providing material support for terror for working as Bin Laden's $200-a-month driver in Afghanistan until his capture in November 2001.
It cleared him of a more serious charge of conspiracy.
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