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Wide of JD Gordon introducing Osama Bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan's defence team at podium2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Navy Lieutenant Brian Mizer, Hamdan's Defence Attorney:\"I think it's...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 5 August 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of JD Gordon introducing Osama Bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan's defence team at podium\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Navy Lieutenant Brian Mizer, Hamdan's Defence Attorney:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think it's a very appropriate analogy, in that Hitler's driver drove Adolf Hitler for several years to some of the conferences that were responsible for the deaths of millions of Europeans. He was not prosecuted, even though he swore a loyalty oath to Adolf Hitler. In fact, as I understand it he attended the first SS Panzer division reunions until his death in 1975. There's no basis for charging the driver with war crimes for what Adolph Hitler and the senior leadership of the Third Reich did. And we think that's a very appropriate analogy for Mr Hamdan, who ferried around Mr Bin Laden, but had no participation in terrorist activities, had no intent to assist in the execution of terrorism.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway at briefing\u003cbr/\u003e4.SOUNDBITE: (English) Charlie Swift, Hamdan's Defence Attorney:\u003cbr/\u003e\"At the close of the trial we put on another witness, a witness who appeared the same way they did before the 9/11 commission, and that was Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Khalid Sheik Mohammed was sent in 30 questions about Mr Hamdan. And you know what Khalid Sheik Mohammed said? 'He's just a driver.  He's good for changing nuts and lugwrenches.  He was never an al-Qaida member.  He was paid personally out of Osama Bin Laden's personal funds because he just worked for Osama Bin Laden.  We put on other evidence that's classified about how much value Mr Hamdan has been to the country, and we're confident with that evidence, and we're hopeful for a favourable verdict.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAgency Pool\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - 23 July 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e5. Court sketch of courtroom during Hamdan's trial \u003cbr/\u003e6. Court sketch of Hamdan in court \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 5 August 2008\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Commander J.D. Gordon, Pentagon Spokesperson:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The military commissions are making progress. We've stated on a number of occasions that the military commissions provide a full and fair trial, and that's exactly what we've seen the last several weeks here for the US v Hamdan case. We have seen a full and fair trial. We've had over 30 press come to Guantanamo to observe the proceeding, and I think we're making progress. The jury is now deliberating and we expect a verdict soon.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAgency Pool\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - 23 July 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e8.  Court sketch of Hamdan and his defence lawyers\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 5 August 2008\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Navy Lieutenant Brian Mizer, Hamdan's Defence Attorney:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're hopeful that the jury will return a verdict of not guilty on all of the charges, and Mr Hamdan can return home. But we're prepared to continue to fight this case, because it is a case worth fighting.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - 07 December 2007\u003cbr/\u003e10. Barbed-wire fencing\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid of fencing \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 5 August 2008\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ben Wizner, Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union:\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is the only legal proceeding that I'm aware of in the world where the accused is already serving a life sentence, and even if he's acquitted, will continue to serve a life sentence. It's the position of the United States Government that Salim Hamdan is an enemy combatant who can be detained until the cessation of hostilities in the war on terror, meaning forever, because there is not only an undefined time, but an undefinable time. And how can a proceeding be full and fair when the accused will continue to serve out his life in prison, even if he's found not guilty?\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - 07 December 2007\u003cbr/\u003e13. Push in to flag  \u003cbr/\u003eThe war crimes trial of a driver for Osama bin Laden could bring the United States closer to its goal of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 10-day trial of Salim Hamdan, in a makeshift courtroom behind coils of razor wire, offers a road map for clarifying the legal status of nearly a third of the more than 250 men still held.\u003cbr/\u003eThe military jury considering the case, the first US war crimes trial since World War II, adjourned on Tuesday without reaching a verdict and was set to return on Wednesday for a third day of deliberations.\u003cbr/\u003eHamdan could face life in prison if convicted of any of the charges against him - two counts of conspiracy and eight counts of aiding terrorism.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout 80 of the roughly 265 men held at Guantanamo are slated to be prosecuted by military tribunals. \u003cbr/\u003eHamdan's case, stalled by years of legal challenges that reached the Supreme Court, signals those cases can move forward now.\u003cbr/\u003eThe US government has long said it wants to close Guantanamo but has struggled to get other countries to take the remaining prisoners - those not slated for prosecution - off its hands.\u003cbr/\u003eFor those who are prosecuted, convictions could make it easier to send detainees to mainland prisons to do their time. \u003cbr/\u003eThe chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo tribunals, Army Colonel Lawrence Morris, has even predicted the trials would be like Space Shuttle launches - so routine the public mostly ignores them.\u003cbr/\u003eThe military has not said where Hamdan, a Yemeni in his late 30s with a fourth-grade education, would serve his sentence, and has suggested he could even be held at Guantanamo indefinitely.\u003cbr/\u003eHamdan was never alleged to be more than a minor figure in al-Qaida, a chauffeur to bin Laden. \u003cbr/\u003e\"He was never an al-Qaida member,\" said Charlie Swift, one of Hamdan's attorneys.  \u003cbr/\u003e\"He was paid personally out of Osama Bin Laden's personal funds because he just worked for Osama Bin Laden.\" \u003cbr/\u003eHe was captured at a roadblock in Afghanistan with two surface-to-air missiles in the car.\u003cbr/\u003eHe is accused of conspiring with al-Qaida in its plots against the United States, but his lawyers say he was a low-level bin Laden employee who stayed with him for the 200 US dollar a month salary.\u003cbr/\u003eA Pentagon spokesman, Navy Commander Jeffrey Gordon, said the completion of the 10-day trial marks \"a substantial sign of progress\" in one aspect of the Bush administration's effort to eventually close Guantanamo.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We've stated on a number of occasions that the military commissions provide a full and fair trial, and that's exactly what we've seen the last several weeks here for the US v. Hamdan case,\" said Gordon.\u003cbr/\u003eThe military has already released more than 500 Guantanamo detainees to their home countries, where most were eventually set free.\u003cbr/\u003eSome analysts, noting Hamdan's relatively minor status in al-Qaida, believe his trial is mostly an opening act, a demonstration of the US legal system for prosecuting suspected terrorists.\u003cbr/\u003eAs a test run, the trial has drawn mixed reviews. \u003cbr/\u003eCritics say it revealed the system's shortcomings by accepting secret testimony in a closed session, with journalists and other observers removed from the courtroom, and by using evidence from interrogations that defence lawyers say involved coercion.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Hamdan trial also established some of the rights that Guantanamo prisoners will have before the tribunals. \u003cbr/\u003eEven after jurors began deliberating, the prosecutors and defence were sparring on Tuesday over the legal definition of a war crime.\u003cbr/\u003eThe dispute centered on the charge Hamdan conspired with al-Qaida by transporting shoulder-launched missiles to kill US service members.\u003cbr/\u003eIn his instructions, the judge said it was a war crime for \"unlawful combatants\" to kill civilians but did not mention soldiers - an instruction the prosecution said was incorrect. 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