Posted on 08/18/2008 5:39:07 AM PDT by kellynla
Five months in jail for driving Mr. bin Laden? Only in America!
Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s former chauffeur, recently won an appallingly light sentence for aiding al-Qaeda. Hamdan’s apologists call him a hapless, innocent motorist. If so, anyone steering a bank-job getaway car is “just a driver.”
Hamdan is no naïf. He is a camp-trained al-Qaeda member who a Guantanamo military tribunal convicted of giving “material support” to America’s chief enemy in the War on Terror. Hamdan transported weapons (including two shoulder-launched missiles with which he was caught), drove and hid bin Laden, and guarded this mass murderer with a machine gun.
Avoiding legitimate work, Hamdan joined al-Qaeda in 1996. He never quit, even after learning that it bombed U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (224 dead, some 5,000 injured) and blasted the U.S.S. Cole (17 killed, 40 wounded). If Hamdan’s hands do not bear the blood of the 2,979 individuals butchered and 7,356 battered on September 11, his orange jumpsuit certainly does. And for this, Guantanamo’s supposed Torquemadas gave Hamdan just 66 months in jail, minus 61 months already served. Hamdan could be free by New Year’s Eve.
Tribunal judge Captain Keith Allred told Hamdan he hoped he could “return to your wife and daughters and your country, and you’re able to be a provider, a father, and a husband in the best sense of all those terms.”
“God willing,” Hamdan replied. He waved at the military jurors and said, in English, “Bye bye, everybody.”
As America entwines itself in dainty legal niceties, it grows clearer that we’re not the jailhouse sadists of Leftist lore. In fact, we’re too nice.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
They have got to be kidding. This POS gets out in 5 mo. they should have shot him, someone is looking for browny points.
yea, this is incredibly weak. the movie “obsession” really hammers home the reasons places like Gitmo and actions like fighting in Afghanistan are crucial...the war on terror must never fall victim to PC freaks. This is a shame.
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