Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Osama bin Laden's former driver will face charges as an ``unlawful enemy combatant'' at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a military judge ruled in a case that will test new U.S. war-crimes trial procedures.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan's case, which previously has been to the U.S. Supreme Court, is at the center of a dispute over what legal procedures are required in military war-crimes trials for fighters captured after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Some of about 300 inmates at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay have been held for as long as six years.
Hamdan's lawyer, Charles Swift, argued at a two-day hearing earlier this month that Hamdan should be considered a prisoner of war who cannot be tried by a military commission. A military judge, Navy Captain Keith J. Allred, rejected the argument in a 10-page decision yesterday.
``The accused is an alien unlawful enemy combatant, subject to the jurisdiction of a military commission,'' Allred wrote. ``He is not a lawful combatant or entitled to prisoner of war status.''
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