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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 7 (UPI) -- Osama bin Laden's former cook and driver pleaded guilty Wednesday at Guantanamo to terrorism charges, the U.S. Defense Department announced.
Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, 50, entered his plea before a military commission sitting at the U.S. base in Cuba. He admitted providing material support to al-Qaida and conspiring to commit terrorism and to provide material support.
Under questioning, Qosi acknowledged following bin Laden to Afghanistan in 1996 and working for him for the next six years. He said he was aware bin Laden was committed to terrorism.
His sentence is to be decided at a hearing in August.
Qosi, an "unprivileged enemy belligerent," is the first person to be convicted by a Guantanamo military commission under the Obama administration, the Miami Herald said.
According to charging documents, Qosi worked personally for bin Laden as bodyguard, cook and driver and tried to help him escape from Tora Bora after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. He was also an active combatant, serving on a mortar crew at a base in Kandahar.
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