SANAA, 26. November 2008: Osama bin Laden’s former driver has returned home to Yemen to serve out his remaining prison term after the US released him from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, informs Aljazeera.net.
Salim Hamdan, a 40-year-old father-of-two, arrived in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday after serving just over five years in the prison at the US naval base.
Hamdan was sentenced to a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence after he was convicted of “supporting terrorism”.
He is due to be released when his sentence ends on December 27.
Hamdan, who was the first man to appear before a US war crimes court since the end of World War Two, was transferred to Yemeni custody and taken to a state security prison after his arrival at a military base at Sanaa International Airport.
His family were denied permission to meet him at Sanaa International Airport.
