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MIAMI — The Pentagon’s war-crimes appeals court announced without explanation Friday that the full U.S. Court of Military Commission Review, not a smaller panel, would review the conviction of Osama bin Laden’s driver, now free in Yemen.
A military jury convicted ex-driver Salim Hamdan, now 40, of providing material support for terrorism at Guantanamo in August 2008. Prosecutors were stunned, however, when that same jury rejected their call for a 30-year sentence and ordered him to serve just 5 1/2 more months.
Hamdan went home to his native Yemen later that year. But Hamdan’s military and volunteer civilian defense attorneys appealed his conviction.
