Osama Driver Released from Gitmo
Posted on November 25, 2008
The ACLU will be celebrating soon! Technically he will be sent to Yemen to serve out the rest of his tiny sentence.
Former Osama bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan is being transferred from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, back to his home country of Yemen, a senior defense official said Monday.
Hamdan was convicted of aiding al-Qaida in August and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison. He would be eligible for release in January with credit for time served.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the matter, said Hamdan will serve out the remainder of his sentence in Yemen.
Ed Morrissey isn’t comfortable with this:
I wouldn’t bet on that. Yemen has a habit of either releasing terrorists on their own recognizance or allowing them to “escape”. Intel agents believe that al-Qaeda has started to regroup in Yemen, and Hamdan may find a new job if the government there decides to treat him as kindly as they have other suspected AQ operatives.
The Bush administration had little choice, however. His light sentence of 66 months would have meant Hamdan would have walked away free in January. The Pentagon insists that it has the right to keep detainees in custody if the DoD determines that they represent a danger to the US. That may sound good in theory, but the Bush administration didn’t look enthusiastic about telling that to a federal judge, and by the end of January the new President, Barack Obama, would have been calling those shots anyway.
This is what happens when we let the judicial branch get involved with national security. Perhaps this guy will fade into obscurity, or promote legal jihad as a spokesman on American injustice, or join back up with our enemies. The consequences are yet to be seen, but we’ll see them soon enough. With Obama promising to shut down Gitmo, we’ll see a lot more consequences as well. Maybe he can get a job driving Michael Jackson now that he has converted to Islam.
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It’s November. He gets released in January. And you are concerned where he’s going to be held for his last 2 months. Why?
He was tried my a military tribunal that was so biased against the accused that several prosecuters quit in protest, and even then, with all the cards stacked for the government and against the accused the best that they could get from a jury of military officers (not your typical group of liberals) was 5.5 years with most of it credited for time served.
And you want to contiue to hold him indefinitely. Why?
It seems to me that the reason that this site and it’s followers are against the ACLU is because you’re against the Constitution. You want your rights, but you don’t want anyone who doesn’t think exactly the way that you do to have them.