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Bin Laden's former driver to leave Guantanamo for Yemen: report
AFP - Tuesday, November 25
WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver currently being held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be transferred to Yemen, CNN reported, citing unnamed US sources.
A jury of six US military officers at a Guantanamo terrorism trial in August sentenced Hamdan to five years and six months in prison for supporting terrorism -- which taking into account time served, amounted to only an additional five months.
The Pentagon refused to confirm the report. "In general we don't talk about transfers until they are completed," Pentagon spokesman Mark Ballesteros told AFP.
Hamdan, a native of Yemen and about 40 years old, was picked up by US forces in Afghanistan in late 2001, and arrived at the Guantanamo prison in 2002.
According to CNN, Hamdan will serve out the remainder of his term in Yemen.
Around 100 of the roughly 250 "war on terror" suspects being held in Guantanamo are from Yemen. Washington has not reached and agreement with Sanaa that would allow US officials to send home more Yemeni prisoners.
"We have not had confidence that the Yemeni government would take the required measures to protect civilian population from the detainees once released," another Pentagon spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, told AFP.
Hamdan was bin Laden's former driver and sometimes bodyguard, but denied any involvement in terrorist activities.
During the trial Hamdan's lawyers emphasized that their client had cooperated with US officials ever since he was detained.
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