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US appeals court reverses bin Laden driver sentenceReuters A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of Osama bin Laden's former driver and bodyguard, Salim Hamdan, on charges of supporting terrorism, in a long-running case emerging from the American military trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
October 18, 2012, 10:54 am TWN The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that providing support for terrorism was not a war crime at the time of Hamdan's alleged conduct from 1996 to 2001 and therefore could not support a conviction. Human rights activists hailed the ruling as a blow to the legitimacy of the military commission system. Hamdan was captured at a roadblock in Afghanistan in November 2001, not long after the U.S. invasion of that country following the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.
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