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WFTV Orlando
March 16, 2018
Swift is the director of the Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America, according to the Muslim Legal Fund of America website. One of the most high-profile cases he defended was the U.S. Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfield for his client, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Hamdan, a Yemeni citizen, wasÃâà...
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando
February 12, 2018
Swift is most known for his work on behalf of Guantanamo Bay detainee and Yemeni citizen Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who was charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism because he worked as a driver for Osama bin Laden. Swift was supposed to enter a guilty plea for Hamdan before a military commissionÃâà...
Toledo Blade
October 11, 2017
He eventually settled on Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver. Mr. Katyal won the ensuing case at the Supreme Court, showing him that, in America, the lowest of the low can successfully go against the most powerful men in the federal government and win, if they have a good argument.
Slate Magazine
March 30, 2014
The sight of a man, free, who used to be in chains, is breathtaking. And so I gasped as Salim Hamdan walked into the lobby of my hotel in Sana'a, Yemen's capital, one evening in January. Now in his mid-40s, he looked heavier and happier than I remembered him. In fact, smiling with his wife by his side,Ãâà...
Toronto Star
October 22, 2012
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA—Salim Ahmed Hamdan woke in his home in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a on Wednesday no longer a war criminal. His wife had delivered the news the afternoon before. “I did not hear it at first,” he said, talking about the case for the first time in a telephone interview with theÃâà...
New York Times
August 9, 2008
Keith J. Allred of the Navy, had already said that he planned to give the driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, credit for at least the 61 months he has been held since being charged, out of more than six years in all. That would bring Mr. Hamdan to the end of his criminal sentence in five months. After that his fate isÃâà...
New York Times
August 9, 2008
Keith J. Allred of the Navy, had already said that he planned to give the driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, credit for at least the 61 months he has been held since being charged, out of more than six years in all. That would bring Mr. Hamdan to the end of his criminal sentence in five months. After that his fate isÃâà...
New York Times
January 9, 2006
In 1996, Salim Hamdan, a 26-year-old Yemeni with a thick mustache and kinky black hair, was working part time as a taxi driver, dividing his modest income between the mattress he rented in a crowded boardinghouse in the dirty, bustling city of Sana and his daily supply of khat leaves, the stimulant thatÃâà...
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