Ex-Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo To Testify For Bin Laden’s Driver
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — In a stunning turnaround, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay said yesterday that he would be a defense witness for the driver of Osama bin Laden. Colonel Morris Davis of the Air Force told the Associated Press that he will appear at a hearing for Salim Ahmed Hamdan. “I expect to be called as a witness. … I’m more than happy to testify,” Mr. Davis said in a telephone interview from Washington. He called it “an opportunity to tell the truth.” At the April pretrial hearing inside the American military base in southeast Cuba, Mr. Hamdan’s defense team plans to argue that alleged political interference cited by Colonel Davis violates the Military Commissions Act, Mr. Hamdan’s military lawyer, Lieutenant Brian Mizer of the Navy, told the AP.
