U.S. to extradite Bin Laden's driver to Yemen soon

SANA'A, Nov. 24 (Saba) - Well-informed sources said on Monday that
U.S. authorities would extradite Salim Hamdan to Yemen in the coming
few days, the State-run 26sep.net reported Monday.

He is one of Yemen's dozens detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, who
were detained several years ago since 9/11.

Salim Ahmed Hamdan (born in 1970) is a Yemeni, captured in November
2001 during the invasion of Afghanistan, and imprisoned at
Guantanamo Bay. He admits to being Osama bin Laden's personal driver
and bodyguard.

He was charged with "conspiracy and providing material support for
terrorism" but a judge declared the judicial system in place at the
time unconstitutional and those charges were dropped on June 5,
2007. He was then held, without being charged, as an enemy
combatant.

He was brought up on new charges on July 21, 2008, and found guilty
of "providing material support" to al Qaeda, but was cleared of
terrorism conspiracy charges. He was sentenced last August to
five-and-a-half years of imprisonment by a military jury, being
counted as having already served five years of the sentence at the
time.