Bin Laden Driver Not Tied to Terror Acts

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Two days into the first U.S. war-crimes trial since the 1940s, defendant Salim Hamdan's fate seems likely to depend on a single question: whether working as a personal driver for Osama bin Laden is itself an offense that can be punished by life imprisonment. The government's star witness, former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Ali Soufan, testified under questioning by the defense that "nothing that I know of" linked Mr. Hamdan to any terrorist act. Mr. Hamdan is charged with conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism. The government argues that even if Mr. Hamdan had no planning role or advance knowledge of terrorist operations, his failure to leave Mr. bin Laden's employ after al Qaeda's deadly attacks on the U.S. embassies in Africa, the USS Cole and the World Trade Center points... [read full story]