A U.S. federal appeals court has overturned the terrorism conviction of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver for Osama Bin Laden. In Tuesday's unanimous ruling, the three-judge panel said material support for terrorism was not a crime under international law at the time of Hamdan's conviction. Hamdan was convicted by an a military tribunal at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison in connection to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the ...
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