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Osama's driver transferred

The US military is transferring Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, from the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay to his home country of Yemen, The Washington Post reported in yesterday's editions, citing two government officials.

Hamdan, who won a landmark US Supreme Court ruling in 2006 that struck down US President George W. Bush's first military tribunal system, was expected to arrive within 48 hours in Yemen's capital, Sanaa. He is to serve out the remaining month of his military commission sentence in a Yemeni prison, the newspaper said.