I find it incredibly sad that it took this long to reach a predictable sentence.
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07 August 2008
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19:30
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After all of this nonsense, sixty-six months for Hamdan after he was convicted of the lesser offense of providing support to a foreign power, rather than the active participation in terrorist acts and conspiracies with which he was also charged. I do not think it is a coincidence that the military court (equivalent to jury in military justice parlance, the "court" is the trier of fact, whether a judge or a jury) chose a sentence that if followed would result in Hamdan's release just before George III leaves office.
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