Guest: Thom Shanker, The New York Times
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While the defense says that the trial didn’t follow the American rule of law, prosecutors seem generally pleased with the verdict in the case of Osama bin Laden’s driver, Salim Hamdan. Army Col. Lawrence Morris, the chief prosecutor, discusses the case and its implications.
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Guest: Jonathan Mahler, author and New York Times contributing writer. Mahler wrote the book "The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power."
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Osama bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan, was found guilty of war crimes, but acquitted on conspiracy charges Wednesday.
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Guest: James Read, BBC World Service Africa Desk
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Guest: Eric Schmitt, New York Times Reporter
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In the wake of violent protests involving the Olympic torch and the murder of 16 policemen in Xinjiang province, Olympics organizers and participants fear more civic disturbances. Ironically, author Charles Cumming's new book "Typhoon" is a thriller about terrorist attacks on the eve of the Olympics, launched by citizens from Xinjiang. Is the work of fiction that far-fetched?
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Guest: Dan Griffiths, BBC Correspondent in Beijing
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Guest: Evan Kohlmann, a self-made international terrorism consultant. Evan wrote, produced and narrated "The al-Qaeda Plan," which was used as evidence in the Hamdan Trial.
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Guest: Scott Shane, The New York Times
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Guest: Army Col. Lawrence Morris, Guantanamo trial prosecutor
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CIA officials have determined that members of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), provided direct support for last month's bombing of India's embassy in Kabul. American officials say this is the clearest evidence that Pakistani intelligence officers are actively undermining American efforts to combat militants in Afghanistan.
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With the trial of Osama bin Laden drive Salim Hamdan underway in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, writer Jonathan Mahler compares the proceedings those in Nuremberg after World War II. Nuremberg mattered, Mahler says, but Guantanamo is another matter in the eyes of the public.
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The Hamdan trial continues in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Yesterday, prosecutors in the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, unveiled a graphic video of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and other al-Qaida operations, created for the Office of Military Commissions, entitled "The al-Qaida Plan."
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President George Bush and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani met yesterday at The Oval Office. It’s Gilani’s first visit since Pakistan formed a coalition government earlier this year. Speaking to reporters, the president called Pakistan “a strong ally” and a “vibrant democracy.” The meeting comes as U.S. officials have called on Pakistan to stop militants from organizing cross-Afghanistan-border attacks.

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Guest: Jim Muir, BBC correspondent
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In the New York Times, Thomas Schweich, a State Department narcotics official, charges that the Afghan government is deeply involved in protecting the opium trade and funneling profits to the Taliban and Taliban sympathizers.
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Guest: Sarah Rainsford, BBC correspondent
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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is famous for the secrecy and security that shrouds the legal proceedings of its detainees. But what is like to be a reporter there? USA Today’s Alan Gomez was at Guantanamo. He joins The Takeaway to share his experience, Irish pubs and all.
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Guest: Helen Fawkes, BBC correspondent, in Belgrade, Serbia
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Guest: Eric Schmitt, The New York Times
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The Hamdan trial continues in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Yesterday, U.S. Military prosecutors played an interrogation video of former Osama bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan in which he denied any connections to al-Qaida. Hamdan asked to leave the courtroom as video playback began.
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Guest: Stephen Erlanger, The New York Times
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The first American war crimes tribunal since World War II is taking place in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On trial is Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Defense lawyers say the poor Yemeni took the job only for its $200-a-month salary, but prosecutors say Hamdan was a willing recruit, aiding al-Qaida in its militancy efforts.
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Guest: Rob Watson, BBC defense correspondent
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Three months after the voting and violence began, Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, is holding hands with opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara. The Zimbabwean politicians have agreed to sit down and talk through the disagreements, ending an election crisis.
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After 13 years on the run from the law, one of the world’s most wanted men, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, is behind bars. Karadzic had twice been indicted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal and accused of 16 counts of genocide.
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In "The Dark Side," author Jane Mayer weaves a seven-year narrative detailing what we know and don't know about the decisions made while pursuing terrorists after the coordinated terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Mayer focuses on roles of Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief-of-staff since 2005, David Addington, and infers details from a secret 2007 Red Cross report that says the prisoner abuses at U.S. facilities constitute war crimes.
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In the past month, Somalia has witnessed a sharp increase in violence directed at international aid workers, many of them employees of Western organizations, who deliver food and medical relief to the more that 1.1 million refugees living in Somalia.
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