The Washington Post has an article about the intention of the US military not to release Salim Hamdan when his sentence runs out in six months: "Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said it has always been the Defense Department's position that detainees could be held as enemy combatants even after acquittal at military commissions or after serving a prison sentence... Defense Department officials said there are concerns about the public perception of holding Hamdan after his prison term runs out, because it could label the military commissions a 'show' process with no meaning to its sentences. They also worry about possible precedents that could be set in US courts if Hamdan's attorneys immediately file a habeas corpus petition seeking his release in five months. Hamdan previously won a Supreme Court case that invalidated the Bush administration's earlier military commissions procedures."
Rico says this guy won't see freedom for quite awhile, if ever...
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