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Six Months for Hamdan? Scrap Military Trials

It's time for a new system with elements of civilian courts

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 8, 2008 2:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – Salim Hamdan’s five-and-a-half-year prison sentence is a "stunningly unjust" joke, writes an enraged Andrew McCarthy in the National Review, especially because bin Laden’s driver will eligible for release in 6 months. Absurdly, he is now in a better position than his fellow...   Read full story »

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