Русская версияOsama Bin Laden's former driver is awaiting sentencing, a day after a US military jury at Guantanamo Bay convicted him of supporting terrorism.
It is expected Salim Hamdan will ask for a sentence less severe than life imprisonment - the maximum he faces.
Hamdan, a Yemeni who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001, was convicted of five counts of supporting terrorism but was cleared of conspiracy.
It was the first verdict in a full war crimes trial at the US prison in Cuba.
The jury of six military officers had deliberated for about eight hours over three days before reaching their verdict.
The defence team plans to appeal, and rights groups condemned the trial as unjust.
But the White House said the trial was a "fair and appropriate legal process".
Hamdan had admitted working for Bin Laden in Afghanistan from 1997 to 2001 for $200 (Ј99) a month, but said he worked for wages, not to wage war on the US.
Convicting him on five counts of aiding terrorism, the jury accepted he was a member of al-Qaeda who had served as Bin Laden's armed bodyguard and driver while knowing that the al-Qaeda leader was plotting attacks against the US.
But he was found not guilty on three other counts of aiding terrorism, alleging that he knew that his work would be used for terrorism and that he provided surface-to-air missiles to al-Qaeda.
He was also cleared of two charges of conspiracy, alleging that he was part of the al-Qaeda effort to attack the US - the most serious charges he faced.
About 270 suspects remain in detention in Guantanamo Bay.
Among the dozens of other inmates due to be tried there in the coming months are men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks.
Hamdan's case was the first US war crimes trial since World War II.
(BBC)
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