Gitmo judge rules for defense questioning

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, March 20 (UPI) -- A judge has ruled that lawyers for Osama bin Laden's driver may question other detainees about whether he was a co-conspirator in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Lawyers for Salim Ahmed Hamdan may send written questions to other detainees at Guantanamo Bay asking whether the bin Laden driver participated in planning for the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and other al-Qaida attacks, The Miami Herald reported Thursday.

Hamdan admitted to being bin Laden's driver, a job for which he received $200 a month. However he maintains he was never a part of al-Qaida and never participated in any terror-related planning or attacks.