Salim Hamdan

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Release Hamdan

Justin Florence | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Salim Hamdan, Illegal Detainment, Detainees, Politics News

Mr. Hamdan's sentence, in the Administration's view, will be not that selected by the military, but whatever the president wants. This position is unjust and unwise.

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The Media's Response to the Hamdan Trial: Due Process or Dictatorial Sideshow?

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Pentagon, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salt Lake Tribune, New York Times, Stephen Colbert, Washington Post, Al-Qaeda, Salim Hamdan, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Kansas City Star, Military Commissions, Media News

As the Olympics and the war in Georgia threaten to sweep all before them, the significance of the lenient sentence handed down by a military jury to G...

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Salim Hamdan's Tribunal and the Strength of the Constitution

Jonathan Mahler | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nuremberg Trials, Salim Hamdan, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Politics News

Four-and-a-half years ago I profiled Hamdan's newly assigned defense lawyer, a JAG lawyer named Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift -- a gift from the magazine gods.

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So They Nabbed The Driver, But Where is OBL?

Jamal Dajani | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Salim Hamdan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Guantanamo Detainees, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

The Bush administration, desperate to show it had made inroads into Bin Laden's terrorist network decided to take a gamble by trying Salim Hamdan. Hamdan, however, is nothing more than a chauffeur.

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Salim Hamdan's Sentence Signals the End of Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Murphy, Charles Swift, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Judge Keith Allred, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Until now, the administration has maintained it has the right to hold "enemy combatants" without charge until the end of hostilities. A sentence has now ended that open-ended policy.

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How Is Driving Bin Laden A War Crime?

ProPublica | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Osamas Driver, Osama Bin Laden Driver, Bin Laden Driver, Hamdan Verdict, Salim Hamdan, Osama Driver, Hamdan Guilty Verdict, Politics News

Among the many oddities of the U.S.'s first war crimes trial since World War II is this: The war crime for which Salim Hamdan was convicted, material ...

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Hamdan Case a Joke

Lionel Beehner | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, International Law, Laws of War, Military Commissions Act, Afghanistan, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Detainees, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Hamdan, Salim Hamdan, Politics News

Let's be honest: this case was a joke in the annals of justice and a blotch on America's campaign to prevent future 9/11's.

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The Hamdan War Crimes Trial: An Illusion of Justice

Sahr MuhammedAlly | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Terrorism, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Hamdan could have been prosecuted in federal court but the government instead decided to make his offenses war crimes. This in legal terms is ex post facto application of the law -- and it is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.

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Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Ali Soufan, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Judge James Robertson, Guantanamo, Prisoners of War, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, US District Court, Detainee Treatment Act, Military Commissions, Nuremberg Trials, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Col. Morris Davis, Politics News

As with justice, logic is in short supply in the executive's approach to terror suspects, who have been deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions to make false confessions.

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Fact Sheet: The 16 Prisoners Charged in Guantanamo's Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

In April, Ibrahim al-Qosi also boycotted his pre-trial hearing, telling the judge, "I do not recognize the justice or the lawfulness of this court,

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Guantanamo Trial Delayed: Judge Invokes Pending Supreme Court Decision

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home

Read More: US Supreme Court, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Rasul v. Bush, Salim Hamdan, The Guantanamo Files, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Capt. Keith Allred, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Home News

As a recent decision by a military judge makes clear, the wheels of justice revolve in slow motion at Guantánamo, as those responsible for the exerci...

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The Ends Versus the Means

Robyn Blumner | Posted 05.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Col. Morris Davis, Ways and Means, Salim Hamdan, President Bush, Means and Ends, Executive Power, John Elwood, Politics News

There are those for whom the ends justifies the means and those for whom the means matter. Count me as someone who cares supremely about the means. Count the present administration as one who doesn't give a hoot.

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Betrayals, Backsliding and Boycotts: the Continuing Collapse of Guantanamo's Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

Anyone who has kept half an eye on the proceedings at the Military Commissions in Guantanamo will be aware that their progress has been faltering at best.

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Who are the prisoners released from Guantanamo with Sami al-Haj?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Said Al-Boujaadia, Amir Yacoub Al-Amir, Morocco, Sami Al-Haj, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Sudan, Salim Hamdan, The Guantanamo Files, Walid Ali, Politics News

Late last week, I joined in the widespread celebrations -- at least in those parts of the world that care about the injustice of holding people in pri...

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The US Military's Shameless Propaganda Over Guantanamo's 9/11 Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 04.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ibrahim Al-Qosi, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Ahmed Mohammed Al-Darbi, Mohamed Jawad, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, Major Tom Fleener, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, 9/11, Lt. Col. Bryan Broyles, Salim Hamdan, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Omar Khadr, Military Commissions, Politics News

In what appears to be nothing more than propaganda masquerading as news, the US military has announced that it will televise the Guantánamo trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

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Cleared but Still Held in Guantánamo: Moroccan Prisoner Said al-Boujaadia

Andy Worthington | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Said Al-Boujaadia, Tunisia, Morocco, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Return to Torture, Salim Hamdan, Reprieve, Politics News

At least 50 prisoners in Guantánamo who have been cleared for release by military review boards from 2005 to the present day, are still held in appalling isolation.

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Guantanamo's Shambolic Trials: Pentagon Boss Resigns, Ex-Chief Prosecutor Joins Defense

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: William J Haynes II, Waterboarding, David Hicks, Michael Mukasey, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Omar Khadr, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Alberto J Mora, Col. Morris Davis, US Torture, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Politics News

The Bush administration's decision to choose a child soldier -- the Canadian Omar Khadr -- as its first attempt at a real conviction continues to attract heated opposition.

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Guantanamo Trials: Where Are The Terrorists?

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ibrahim Al-Qosi, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Mohamed Jawad, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Al-Qaeda, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Omar Khadr, Col. Peter Brownback, Osama Bin Laden, Military Commissions, Politics News

The US military has spent $12 million on a mobile court complex, which is intended to be used for the trial by Military Commission of up to 80 detainees, beginning in May.

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Military Judge Dashes Hopes that Guantánamo Detainees Have Rights as Prisoners of War

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Prisoner of War, Salim Hamdan, Military Tribunals, Politics News

Capt. Allred appeared to have put together such a compelling case for Hamdan's rights as a Prisoner of War that his sudden decision to discard these well-honed arguments smacks of interference from the highest levels of the administration.

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Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: The Most Important Habeas Corpus Case in Modern History

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Seth P. Waxman, Justice Kennedy, War on Terror, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, General Paul D. Clement, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Al Odah v. United States, Military Commissions Act, Boumediene v. Bush, Habeas Corpus, Stephen Abraham, John Paul Stevens, Enemy Combatants, Lakmar Boumediene, Joanna Mariner, Human Rights Watch, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Rasul v. Bush, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Politics News

Tomorrow's hearing is of colossal importance, not only to the detainees in Guantánamo, many of whom are about to start their seventh year of imprisonment without charge or trial, but also to the government.

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