A U.S. appeals court has quashed the conviction of Osama Bin Laden's former driver, who had been jailed in Guantanamo Bay for giving material support to terrorism.
Like most of the eight years of the Bush administration, Salim Hamdan's conviction was a farce. Hamdan admitted working for Bin Laden in Afghanistan from 1997 to 2001 for $200 a month as his driver-- but said he worked for wages, not to wage war. The appeals court rejected the government's charge that he had conspired to carry out the 9/11 attacks, ruling that Hamdan's actions did not constitute war crimes.
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