Hamdan Seen as ‘Not Fit’ for Terror

Jerry Markon
Washington Post
Saturday, Aug 2, 2008

Osama bin Laden’s former driver was a “primitive” chauffeur and mechanic who “was not fit to plan or execute” terrorist attacks, the self-described mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks told jurors in writing Friday at the driver’s military trial.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 architect, wrote that Salim Ahmed Hamdan was a low-level support staffer who never joined al-Qaeda and did not share bin Laden’s ideology. Hamdan is on trial in the first U.S. military commission since World War II. His lawyers rested their case Friday, and closing arguments are scheduled for Monday.

“He did not play any role. He was not a soldier, he was a driver,” Mohammed said in answers to written questions from Hamdan’s lawyers that were relayed to the six military jurors. “His nature was more primitive (Bedouin) person and far from civilization. He was not fit to plan or execute.”

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The testimony provided another tantalizing glimpse inside the mind of Mohammed, who has been charged in the most devastating terrorist attack in U.S. history and has been a figure of intrigue since his arrest in 2003. He sketched out a vision of al-Qaeda as a group whose members also have “wives and children and schools” and said that anyone who thinks a mere driver would be involved in attacks “is a fool.”

Attorneys for Hamdan, who is charged with ferrying weapons for al-Qaeda as part of a terrorism conspiracy, had wanted Mohammed to testify live in court at the U.S. detention facility here. They had told jurors there was “a significant chance” they would hear from the perpetrators of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

But Mohammed, after answering written questions, refused to meet with Hamdan’s lawyers and declined to appear in court. His written remarks back up the defense’s argument that Hamdan was a mere chauffeur uninvolved in terrorism. But it is uncertain if a military jury will take the word of an accused al-Qaeda leader.

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5 Responses to “Hamdan Seen as ‘Not Fit’ for Terror”

1. Gregory Fegel Says:
   August 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 am

   ‘Khalid Sheik Mohammed’ must be pretty high up in the Pakistani ISI and Al CIAda pecking order. He has been personally blamed for about fifty ‘Terrorist’ attacks, including the 1993 WTC bombing, even though he lived and worked in Qatar from 1992 to 1996.

   Now KSM is serving as a star witness at Guantanamo. The CIA must really like this guy. First he does great field work as an agent-provocateur for them, and then he provides willing testimony at US military kangaroo trials for his alleged associates. KSM doesn’t seem to care whether he works for Jihad or for the CIA; maybe that’s because he actually works for both.

   Whatever happened to Islamic fanaticism? The chameleon-like KSM, a consumate ‘yes man’, seems to be willing to do anything or say anything for anybody he happens to be with at the time.

2. Kcuhc Says:
   August 2nd, 2008 at 1:37 pm

   How’s the Kool-Aid tasting today Greg?

3. WXYZ Says:
   August 2nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm

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   of senior Nasa official Clark McClelland.

   McClelland supported astronaut Ed Mitchell’s claim that the military was interacting with alien races.

   McClelland revealed that he saw an 8 to 9 alien in the shuttle docking bay on his moniter during a classified shuttle mission.

   He also witnessed a UFO locked in a stationary orbit with the shuttle.

   You can find the full story under the links button at;

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4. Roy Luhza Says:
   August 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 am

   Show trial underway at Gitmo, and such a transparent piece of junk that it makes one wonder just what is going on!!

   Osama bin Laden did not have a fuggin driver, he was gettin flown about the place aboard a USAF C130 aircraft, he was the tall sallow killer filmed on board the plane on the tarmac in Turkish occupied Cyprus, en route for Algeria and the eighty thousand or so dead post 1993 when the people there elected an Islamicist government.

5. The Messenger Says:
   August 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 am

   911 was an inside job …Remember spammers

   Sheik whatsis name and the other dude are patsies, if you or me or anyone spent five years at Gitmo, you would be so fuggin brainwashed you would plead to any thing.

   Israel Mossad and Jews did it… treasonous politicians and news gatherers have no qualms re turning from obvious truth, NO plane in Shanksville or at the Pentagoddamgon, so why the fu**en hell is a man on trial when there was no plane.

   Citizens you who know the truth and stand up for it are the finest people in the world, maybe overweight slobs with a puter keypad and nuthin else.

   Glorious people who get free lunches and free air plane rides, Obama comes to mind are human failures, Jesu spoke of these things when he said, “shout from the rooftops,” in the Koran it says, “hurl truth at falsehood.”