GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) ― Salim Hamdan pleaded with a military jury on Thursday to spare him from a life in prison, saying he worked as Osama bin Laden's driver because he needed a job. Hamdan, a Yemeni man with a fourth-grade education, was convicted by the six Pentagon-appointed jurors of aiding terrorism by chauferring bin Laden around Afghanistan at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. But he said he merely had a "relationship of respect" with bin Laden, as would any other employee. "It's true there are work opportunities in Yemen, but not at the level I needed after I got married and not to the level of ambitions that I had in my future," he said, reading in Arabic from a prepared statement. The jury found Hamdan guilty of aiding terrorism but acquitted him of conspiracy Wednesday at the first U.S. war...
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