Salim Hamdan, said to be the ex-driver and bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden, has been labeled as guilty of participation in the 9/11 terror attacks by a U.S. military jury at the Guantanamo Bay naval base. An eight hour long discussion spanning over three days was held, before the verdict in Salim Hamdan's trial was meted out on Wednesday, August 6.
The jury has found him guilty on five counts, all related to supporting the terror organization that executed the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Salim Hamdan, however, was exonerated on many other charges including conspiracy. It was at a US naval base in Cuba in late 2001 that the war-on-terror prison camp was set up and Hamdan happens to be the first Guantanamo prisoner to appear before a military tribunal. He belongs to Yemen.
The Afghan soldiers nabbed the former driver of Bin Laden in November 2001, after which he was handed over to the US military. He was shifted to Guantanamo in May 2002. The nabbed Yemeni national accepted that he worked for Osama Bin Laden from 1997 to 2001 in Afghanistan. He, however, rejected that he was involved in executing any of the al-Queda attacks.
