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Article: Bin Laden's ex-driver home in Yemen after Gitmo
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- November 26, 2008
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Osama bin Laden's former driver returned home to Yemen on Wednesday to serve out his remaining prison sentence after the U.S. released him from Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. Defense Department and a Yemeni official said.
Salim Hamdan was transferred to Yemeni custody and taken to a state security prison after his arrival at a military base at San'a International Airport Wednesday night, the Yemeni security official said.
Hamdan _ the first man to go before a U.S. war crimes trial since the end of World War II _ was convicted on Aug. 6 of providing material support to terrorism. The military said it could keep him locked up indefinitely if it considered him to be a continued ...