Supreme Court asked to intervene in Bin Laden driver\'s case

They have urged the court to hear Salim Ahmed Hamdan\'s case immediately and declare that the US cannot try him before the military commissions set up for terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay, reports the Financial Times. The case would force the Supreme Court to confront fundamental questions about whether the commissions which were specially established to bypass both the US courts and traditional military tribunals for war crimes will be allowed to proceed. The Pentagon had been planning to bring Hamdan before a commission next month, the first trial for any of the hundreds of detainees, many of whom have been held now for nearly three years. Full report in the Financial Times