Bin Laden driver describes treatment at Guantanamo

By Jim Loney GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden's former driver took the stand on Tuesday at the U.S. military war court where he faces trial next week and described isolation, sleep deprivation and sexual impropriety during nearly seven years of captivity. It was the first time prisoner Salim Hamdan, who challenged President George W. Bush and won, testified before the war court at the remote U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hamdan's lawsuit led the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006 to strike down the original military tribunal system created by Bush. In Washington on Tuesday, the Justice Department urged a federal judge to allow the trial of Hamdan, a Yemeni in his late 30s, to go forward, opposing a request by Hamdan's lawyers to halt it based on last month's landmark Supreme Court ruling... [read full story]