SubscribeBin Laden Driver Gets Slap On The Wrist
From an elated Associated Press:
Gitmo jury gives bin Laden driver light sentence
By MIKE MELIA, Associated Press Writer
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A military jury gave Osama bin Laden’s driver a stunningly lenient sentence on Thursday, making him eligible for release in just five months despite the prosecutors’ request for a sentence tough enough to frighten terrorists around the globe.
Salim Hamdan’s sentence of 5 1/2 years, including five years and a month already served at Guantanamo Bay, fell far short of the 30 years to life that prosecutors wanted. It now goes for mandatory review to a Pentagon official who can shorten the sentence but not extend it…
Hamdan thanked the jurors for the sentence and repeated his apology for having served bin Laden.
“I would like to apologize one more time to all the members and I would like to thank you for what you have done for me,” Hamdan told the panel of six U.S. military officers, hand-picked by the Pentagon for the first U.S. war crimes trial in a half century.
The military has not said where Hamdan will serve his sentence, but the commander of the detention center, Navy Rear Adm. David Thomas, said last week that convicted prisoners will be held apart from the general detainee population at the isolated U.S. military base in southeast Cuba.
“I hope the day comes that you return to your wife and daughters and your country, and you’re able to be a provider, a father, and a husband in the best sense of all those terms,” the judge told Hamdan.
Hamdan, dressed in a charcoal sports coat and white robe, responded: “God willing.”
Holy Hannah, what a disgrace. — And from a military jury.
Hamdan thanked the jurors for the sentence and repeated his apology for having served bin Laden.
No kidding.
Did he also apologize to the 3,000 people murdered on 9/11 for helping Bin Laden to elude capture?
We are committing suicide as a country, one court case at a time.
(Thanks to Dodgeboy27 for the heads up.)
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August 7th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Muslims are encouraged and expected to lie through their hashish stained teeth to fool infidels into giving them mercy, so they can go back out and kill every non muslim they can.
HamHock is going to be laughing all the way back to Yemen, thanking allah for his good fortune of being captured and “tried” by well meaning but appallingly ignorant Americans.
He will be back….and more of us will die. The only way to deal with these people is to literally
STOP TAKING ANY PRISONERS WHATSOEVER!
August 7th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
JAG officers…the biggest putzes of all commissioned putzes in the military. Those dingbats have just signed death warrants on Lord only knows how many soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen by letting that al-Q slug off so easily.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Actually, this sentence is designed to make Gitmo unnecessary. Our troops will not be taking prisoners.
And if they do, those prisoners will not be housed by the US. What’s a bleeding heart liberal to do then?
August 8th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Is there an objection to giving him credit for time served?
August 8th, 2008 at 12:53 am
No I guess not Golem, but he hasn’t served any of the much deserved death sentence he should have received yet. And yes before you ask, I would love to be judge, jury and executioner OK?
August 8th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Jailing Bin Laden’s driver is like arresting Hitler’s dog; mildly interesting but not much help. Remember all that chest thumping tough talk after Sept 11 about how we were going to stick Bin Laden’s head on a spike blah blah and how we’d go to the ends of the Earth to catch him blah blah? Well, the ends of Earth don’t include Pakistan, apparently, cause that’s where he went and that’s were he still is and we still haven’t got him. Instead we’ve got this clown and the word from the government is that we’re “relaxed” about getting Bin Laden. Well, I’m not relaxed. I want him dead. Baked, boiled or Southern fried, I don’t care, dead is what I want.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:52 am
artboyusa, don’t get wrapped up in the MSM’s bloodlust for Bin Laden.
Would it be nice to catch him? You bet.
Would killing him harm al Qaeda in the least? Nope.
If he’s killed, his idiot followers will treat him like a martyr.
If he’s captured, he will do six months in US prison, tops, then make $250,000 per speech on college campuses not to mention appear on Oprah, NPR and Democracy Now!
Think about it; what largely led to the surrender of Nazi Germany was they were largely defeated coupled with Hitler’s suicide.
Had one of the earlier assassination attempts succeeded I have doubts the Third Reich would have just collapsed without him…