Bin Laden driver pleads not guilty at US warcrimes trial
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, pleaded not guilty on Monday at the opening of the first trial before a special military tribunal at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said.
"The trial has started and he pleaded not guilty," Cynthia Smith, spokeswoman for the US Defense Department, told AFP.
Hamdan, from Yemen, is the first "enemy combatant" from the US "war on terror" to face a full-scale trial since the prison camp at the naval base in Guantanamo was opened in late 2001.
