Hamdan's co-operation hurts him at trial (AAP)

Obama thanks Sarkozy for Afghan troops, says US loves France July 26, 2008, 4:32 am An al-Qaeda driver who gave detailed, insider knowledge of the terror network to US agents is seeing his words used against him at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. The first week of Salim Hamdan's trial ended on Friday with the latest in a series of FBI interrogators testifying about valuable information from the defendant, a former driver for Osama bin Laden who once mingled with many of America's most wanted terror suspects. "I don't know if I ever thanked him," said special agent George Crouch, who interrogated Hamdan in 2002. Agents have said Hamdan identified key terrorist leaders, mapped out bin Laden's escape routes and led them to al-Qaeda safehouses after he was captured at a roadblock in southern Afghanistan in November 2001.... [read full story]