Thursday, a military judge sentenced Salim Hamdan to five and a half years in prison for his conviction for material support of terrorism (as opposed to the life sentence prosecutors asked for). He will receive credit for at least 61 months of the six years that he has already been held at Guantanamo [...]
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Today, an American military panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, convicted Salim Hamdan of material support for terrorism. He was acquitted of conspiracy, but still faces a possible life sentence.
This was the first conviction by the controversial military tribunals and an ambiguous “victory” for the Bush Administration. The failure to secure a conviction on the [...]
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The appearance of children on the battlefield is nothing new. Nor is the reality that a significant percentage of the people who take part in uprisings in any given part of the world are teenagers. In the west, most of us have been shocked at some point by pictures of children in the [...]
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