WORLD BRIEFING / YEMEN
Times Wire Reports
Osama bin Laden’s former driver has been released from a Yemeni prison after serving a sentence for aiding Al Qaeda, his lawyer and a Yemeni Interior Ministry official said.
A U.S. military tribunal convicted Salim Hamdan in August of aiding Al Qaeda and sentenced him to 5 1/2 years in prison. He had already been held for five years and a month at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Hamdan was sent to his native Yemen to serve the rest of his sentence.
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