McCain praises Gitmo detainee verdict

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said he welcomed Wednesday's verdict in the first trial of a Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee under the military commission system.

Salim Hamdan, 37, captured in Afghanistan in 2001 with two surface-to-air missiles in his car, was convicted on several accounts of providing material support for terrorism. He was acquitted of the more serious crime of conspiracy.

"This process demonstrated that military commissions can effectively bring very dangerous terrorists to justice," said the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. "The fact that the jury did not find Hamdan guilty of all of the charges brought against him demonstrates that the jury weighed the evidence carefully."