Guantanamo trials loom for Laden's driver, teen soldier
Afp, Washington
Osama bin Laden's ex-driver and a Canadian child soldier captured in Afghanistan face arraignment today at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay under a US military process slammed by activists as a travesty of justice. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni national born in 1970, is accused of serving both as an armed bodyguard to the al-Qaeda mastermind and as bin Laden's personal chauffeur. The government alleges that Toronto-born Omar Ahmed Khadr, who was 15 when he was seized in Afghanistan five years ago, murdered a US army sergeant with a hand grenade during a raid on an al-Qaeda hideout. The only Guantanamo trial held so far has been that of David Hicks, a 31-year-old Australian who was jailed for nine months in March. He is now serving out his sentence at a maximum-security prison in Adelaide.
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