Bush Pushes Congress to Make Conspiracy a War Crime

Salim Ahmed Hamdan never planted a bomb, never took a hostage, never fired a weapon in anger, and never planned an attack of any kind. What he is alleged to have done, according to his US military commission charge sheet, is work as Osama bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan. So how could military prosecutors at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, charge him with being a terrorist and war criminal? The answer boils down to a single word: conspiracy. The same legal approach that helped put mafia dons, capos, and associates behind bars in America is at the center of US military efforts to prosecute suspected al Qaeda members for war crimes.

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