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MIAMI - The Pentagon charged Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former bodyguard and driver for Osama bin Laden, with conspiracy and material support for terrorism, and referred the Yemeni for trial at the U.S. military commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
It was Hamdan's challenge of the U.S. government's right to detain and prosecute him at the offshore tribunal that brought down President Bush's previous military commission process, which the U.S. Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional nearly a year ago.See the full content of this document
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Pentagon Charges Former Bodyguard to Bin Laden
In its place, Congress passed the 2006 Military Commissions Act last September, crea...
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