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By Jon Shanks Jul 19, 2008

How do you track Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted man? It appears if you can gain the cooperation of someone close, say the Bin Laden driver, that might be a good start. Osama bin Laden's chauffeur, Salim Ahmed Hamda tried to help federal agents find Osama bin Laden throughout Afghanistan, reports now detail.

Bin Laden Driver a Covert Agent: Salim Hamdan and the Search

A report from the Associated Press notes that Osama's driver "led agents to the al-Qaida chief's compounds in Kandahar and mapped out his movements among safehouses, training camps and other remote corners of Afghanistan in the month following the Sept. 11 attacks," citing FBI special agent Robert Fuller's testimony at a pretrial hearing.

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In March of 2002, which would have been Hamdan's fourth month in U.S. custody, he joined FBI agents on a field trip to try and help in the search for Bin Laden. Now the former driver he is about to become the first Guantanamo prisoner to be tried for war crimes. He tried to have the trial postponed but a judge says that the first Guantánamo Bay war crimes trial can begin Monday.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson rejected the delay proposed by Hamda. His decision came shortly after a military judge at Guantánamo Bay also denied Hamdan's request for a postponement.

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