Brian Glyn Williams

For seven years prior to his capture in Afghanistan in November 2001, Salim Hamdan had been Osama bin Laden's personal driver and bodyguard. Al-Qaida film showed him carrying an AK 47 while protecting the al-Qaida chief, and pictures at the time of his arrest showed two SAM 7 anti-aircraft missiles on the backseat of his car. The account of how he avoided conviction on the most serious terrorism charges at his military tribunal hearing, as told by an expert witness in his defense, reveals a little-known side of al-Qaida's warfighting capacity.
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