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Article: Bin Laden driver denied al-Qaida links
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- July 23, 2008
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U.S. military prosecutors on Wednesday played an interrogation video that shows a driver for Osama bin Laden denying any connection to al-Qaida but also fretting that he is "finished."
Salim Hamdan, kneeling before a masked American soldier, insists that he works for an Islamic charity in the video that U.S. Special Forces soldiers recorded in Afghanistan shortly after his capture in November 2001.
"It is all finished for me, why should I lie?" said Hamdan, who appeared much heavier in the recording that ended with soldiers placing a bag over his head.
The videotape was entered as evidence against Hamdan in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. The ...