''The government has had four years to get their charges together on Mr. Hamdan, '' he said.
That's when the Supreme Court decided its most controversial case of the term, Hamdan versus Rumsfeld.
"We're pleased that Salim Hamdan received a fair trial, " White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said.
Recently, some 80 NGOs formed a coalition, headed by Hamdan, to monitor police action and support Tenaganita.
Mr Hamdan was a little-educated fellow who may well not have had any access to al-Qaeda's plans.
When the Supreme Court decided it last week, the justices said the Detainee Treatment Act did not apply to Hamdan retroactively.
Four justices in the Hamdan majority joined Stephen Breyer's concurrence, which expressly invited Congress to authorize military commissions.
"He is free with his family right now, with his children, " Hamdan said.
But Hamdan's lawyers counter that that authorization makes no mention of military tribunals.
There is a good deal in the majority opinion in Hamdan that should give them encouragement to go forward with those cases.
Professor MARY ELLEN O'CONNELL (Notre Dame): Now, the way I read Hamdan is that that would apply to all the pending cases.
Smith, said he could not be sure Hamdan was the driver of one of the three vehicles carrying the missiles.
According to Ali Al-Muhairi, the racing manager at Sheikh Hamdan's stables, women have riding skills ideally sorted to endurance riding.
Israel Defense Forces said Hamdan is responsible for firing long-range Grad rockets into Beer Sheva and Ofakim in southern Israel.
"There is nowhere to talk about just the 48-hours cease-fire, " Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan told CNN's "Situation Room" on Tuesday.
It will provide the administration with a response to the Supreme Court's adverse ruling in the Hamdan case in June.
Hamdan was cool and calm as he addressed the court, wearing a light-colored jacket, a white shirt and traditional white headdress.
Mr. NEAL KATYAL (Lead attorney for Salim Ahmed Hamdan): The criminal trial Hamdan faces at Guantanamo is a constant moving target.
So it seems likely the government will argue that the Supreme Court's Hamdan ruling should only apply to Mr. Hamdan and not the others.
The U.S. government says Hamdan was a confidant and bodyguard of bin Laden and helped transfer weapons from the Taliban to al-Qaida.
Several justices seemed deeply concerned that the government had gone too far in its plans to hold a special trial for Hamdan.
Mr Hamdan can still take his case to a full hearing of the Appeals Court and from there to the Supreme Court.
Although Mr Hamdan has petitioned the Supreme Court for a review, his trial before a military commission is expected to resume soon.
Some were downright indignant over the Bush administration's claim that a new federal law bars the high court from ruling in the Hamdan case.
If the Hamdan ruling does apply across the board, then the hundreds of cases that have been on hold may be soon be in play once again.
But in Hamdan, the high court held that the 2005 act did not apply retroactively, so that habeas proceedings already under way could continue.
Hamdan was captured at a roadblock in Afghanistan in November 2001.
Clearly, the recent Hamdan decision from the Supreme Court forced the administration's hand, and I would guess that was probably the single biggest factor here.
Alito suggested Hamdan should wait until his trial is over before questioning whether charging him with conspiracy violates the laws of war, as his lawyer contends.
The Court said that nothing in the record of the case demonstrates any reason why Hamdan could not be tried under the Military Code of Justice.
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