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COURT SKETCH Video playing in court of Osama bin Laden's former driver Salim Hamdan being interrogated tilt down to Hamdan with lawyer in court2. COURT SKETCH Pan across jury looking at video...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 23 July 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. COURT SKETCH Video playing in court of Osama bin Laden's former driver Salim Hamdan being interrogated tilt down to Hamdan with lawyer in court\u003cbr/\u003e2. COURT SKETCH Pan across jury looking at video screen\u003cbr/\u003e3. COURT SKETCH Pan across courtroom\u003cbr/\u003e4. COURT SKETCH Hamdan with defence team listening \u003cbr/\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 6 August 2008\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Berrigan, Deputy Chief Defence Council:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Mr. Hamdan did not immediately understand what the verdict meant and its implications, counsel are out there meeting with him now, explaining that. It is important to note that he was acquitted of the most important charge of the Government, the conspiracy charge, both specifications of it. He'll never face that charge again, if found not guilty. He was found guilty of five specifications of material support; not all of those material support charges, he was acquitted of three of them. That issue is now at the forefront of what will be the appeal of this case and it is important that the government's position is material support is a war crime, the defence's position is that it is not a war crime. That was litigated prior to trial, Judge Allred let that offence, those specifications go to the panel, it will now be an issue on appeal.\"\u003cbr/\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 23 July 2008\u003cbr/\u003e6. COURT SKETCH Close-up of Hamdan in court \u003cbr/\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 6 August 2008\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Berrigan, Deputy Chief Defence Council:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The real travesty all of this is that the offences for which Mr Hamdan was found not guilty today, were the only offences that he was charged with initially, back in 2004, he was acquitted of all of those. The only specifications he was convicted of are offences that were added after the fact by the Military Commissions Act 2006, long after he was confined here at Guantanamo Bay.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid of Camp Justice sign\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Commander J.D. Gordon, Pentagon Spokesperson:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, as we've seen here over the past few weeks; Mr Hamdan did receive a full and fair trial. He was convicted of material support to terrorism, five specifications out of eight that he was charged with. And as we can see, the military commission's process is moving forward.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Unknown location and undated\u003cbr/\u003e11. STILL Photo of Hamdan\u003cbr/\u003eGuantanamo Bay, Cuba - 6 August 2008\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ben Wizner, Staff Attorney, ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union):\u003cbr/\u003e\"Never in the history of the law of war has a military tribunal been convened to punish such a low-level offender for such low level charges.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of restricted area sign at Guantanamo Bay\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, New York - 6 August 2008\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various set ups of Michael Ratner, President of Center for Constitutional Rights, in his office\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Ratner, President of Center for Constitutional Rights: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm not surprised by the verdict of guilt because this was a hand-picked jury with unfair rules of evidence, coerced evidence and unfair charges and tried in an environment in which basically secrecy was the hallmark. This is not a trial that really comports with my notions or even the Constitution's notions of due process.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of Ratner at desk\u003cbr/\u003eA jury of six military officers convicted Osama bin Laden's former driver of \"supporting terrorism\" on Wednesday in the first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay, but cleared him of conspiracy charges.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Pentagon-selected jury deliberated for about eight hours over three days before returning the verdict against Salim Hamdan, who held his head in his hands and wept at the defence table after a Navy captain on the jury read the decision.\u003cbr/\u003eThe judge said he would hold a sentencing hearing later Wednesday in the hilltop courtroom on this US base in southeastern Cuba.\u003cbr/\u003eHamdan, who is from Yemen, faces a life sentence. It remains unclear where he would be held.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the military tribunals, the jury votes on the sentence.\u003cbr/\u003eIt was not immediately known when they would begin their deliberations.\u003cbr/\u003eDefence lawyers said they had feared a guilty verdict was inevitable, saying the tribunal system's rules seemed designed to achieve convictions.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the administration of US President George W Bush said Hamdan enjoyed a zealous defence and called the verdict fair.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Mr Hamdan did receive a full and fair trial; he was convicted of material support to terrorism, five specifications out of eight that he was charged with. And as we can see, the military commissions process is moving forward,\"  said Commander J D Gordon, a Pentagon Spokesperson.\u003cbr/\u003eHamdan faced eight counts of \"supporting terrorism\" and two counts of conspiracy. \u003cbr/\u003eThe five-man, one-woman jury convicted him on five counts of \"supporting terrorism\" and found him not guilty on three others.\u003cbr/\u003eHe was cleared of both counts of conspiracy.\u003cbr/\u003eJurors accepted the prosecution argument that Hamdan \"aided terrorism\" by serving as bin Laden's armed bodyguard and driver in Afghanistan while knowing that his boss was plotting attacks against the US.\u003cbr/\u003eThe war crimes trial - the first held by the US since World War II - differed from the courts-martial used to prosecute American troops for alleged abuses in Iraq or Vietnam. \u003cbr/\u003eHamdan did not have all the rights of a US soldier, from a jury of his peers to Miranda rights, and the proceedings included secret testimony and allowed hearsay evidence.\u003cbr/\u003eThe deputy chief defence counsel for the Guantanamo tribunals, Michael Berrigan, said the split verdict was due to the skill of Hamdan's lawyers under difficult circumstances.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The real travesty all of this is that the offences for which Mr Hamdan was found not guilty today, were the only offences that he was charged with initially, back in 2004, he was acquitted of all of those,\" Berrigan said. \u003cbr/\u003eHamdan's attorneys said the judge allowed evidence that would not have been admitted by any civilian or military US court, and that interrogations at the centre of the government's case were tainted by coercive tactics, including sleep deprivation and solitary confinement.\u003cbr/\u003eDeputy White House spokesman Tony Fratto said in a statement that the Bush administration was pleased by the outcome and considered it a fair trial.\u003cbr/\u003eHamdan was captured at a roadblock in southern Afghanistan in November 2001 and taken to Guantanamo in May 2002. \u003cbr/\u003eHis trial, delayed by years of legal challenges that reached the Supreme Court, was the first demonstration of the Bush administration's system for prosecuting terror suspects.\u003cbr/\u003eThe military accused him of transporting missiles for al-Qaida and helping bin Laden escape US retribution following the September 11 attacks by serving as his driver in Afghanistan. \u003cbr/\u003eDefence attorneys said he was merely a low-level bin Laden employee, a minor member of a motor pool with a fourth-grade education who earned about 200 US dollars a month.\u003cbr/\u003eThe verdict was criticised by an activist from the ACLU - the American Civil Liberties Union.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Never in the history of the law of war has a military tribunal been convened to punish such a low-level offender for such low level charges,\" said Ben Wizner, an ACLU Staff Attorney.\u003cbr/\u003eIn New York, Michael Ratner, the President of the Centre for 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