Bin Laden's driver walks out on terror trial-didn't want to watch videotaped interrogation

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Bin Laden's driver walks out on terror trial
By Carol Rosenberg | The Miami Herald


GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Osama bin Laden's driver walked out of his terror trial Wednesday rather than watch prosecutors show a video of his first U.S. interrogation, in Afghanistan in November 2001.

Three guards rushed to their feet and surrounded Salim Hamdan, 37, as he stood at the defense table within a minute of the start of the video.

The interrogation shows Hamdan, with a trim black beard, sitting cross-legged on the cement floor of a nondescript room — a Special Forces soldier over Hamdan's right shoulder holding an assault rifle.

Hamdan's hands are bound in front of him. The room is slightly illuminated by natural light. Unidentified military personnel put a bag over his head as they remove him from his first interrogation session.

Hamdan's defense lawyer, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer, has said he believes that his client is the first Arab captured in the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan -- and the video is the first recorded interrogation.

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