Ahmed Salim

• Hamdan, Salim Ahmed vs. Rumsfeld, Donald H., (D.C. Cir. 2005)

United States Court of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT Argued April 7, 2005 Decided July 15, 200...

• Federal Circuits

• A Global Peace Leadership Summit in the Diaspora

The Summit's keynote speaker is internationally renowned Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, African Union Special Envoy for Darfur and world ambassador of peace. Dr. Salim served as Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity (now called The African Union-AU) for an unprecedented three terms. His vast experience includes Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation (Tanzania) and Chancellor of the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University. He has also served as AU Special Envoy and Chief Mediator for the Inter-Sudanese Political Talks on Darfur. Dr. Salim continues to serve as chairperson and contributor to several international advisory boards of trustees, including on the Institute of Peace Leadership and Governance, Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe, having also held...

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• August 28, 2009

• Lucy Mercado, Individually and as Next Friend of Brian Mercado, a Minor, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Salim Ahmed and Checker Taxi Company, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees., 974 F.2d 863 (7th Cir. 1992)

James T. Crotty, Zacarias R. Chacon, Timothy F. Kelly (argued), Crotty & Chacon, Chicago, Ill., Karl K. Vanzo, Munster, Ind., for plaintiff-appellant....

• Federal Circuits

• U.S. Supreme Court Justices Hear Arguments in Guantanamo Detainee Case

The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni identified by the U.S. government as Osama bin Laden's driver. Hamdan was captured in Afghanistan in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and sent to the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he remains pending trial on a terror conspiracy charge. Hamdan is challenging the U.S. government's right to try him using a military tribunal or commission, which would afford him fewer protections than a civilian court or a military court- martial. Hamdan claims trying him by commission would violate the laws of war as stated in the Geneva Conventions and constitute an unconstitutional power grab by the president.

• Lawyers USA
• April 10, 2006

• Judgment From the Sky

In a commendable start to the new year, the CIA killed two top al Qaeda leaders, Usama al-Kini, chief of al Qaeda operations in Pakistan, and his lieutenant Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan. The two were taken out by an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) patrolling western Pakistan, along with the explosives training center in which they were planning new acts of terror. The UCAVs have been prodigious hunters of late. Strikes in Pakistan numbered five per year in 2006 and 2007; in 2008 there were close to 40 attacks, the majority in the last four months of the year. Since July 2008 the missile strikes have resulted in the deaths of eight senior al Qaeda leaders, and many other lower ranking terrorists of various stripes.

• The Washington Times
• January 15, 2009

• Court Ruling Clears Way to Resume Military Trials; Opponents Call Ruling 'Contrary to 200 Years of Constitutional Law'

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Guantanamo detainee who once was Osama bin Laden's driver can be tried by military tribunal, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, apparently clearing the way for the Pentagon to resume trials suspended when a lower court ruled the procedures unlawful. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled unanimously against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• July 16, 2005

• On the Front - Missile Kills 2 Terror Chiefs -- They Ran Al-Qaida in Pakistan, U.S. Says

WASHINGTON - An American missile strike on Jan. 1 in Pakistan's tribal areas killed two senior leaders of al-Qaida, including one militant suspected of overseeing September's deadly suicide bombing at a Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital, a U.S. counterterrorism official said Thursday. In the past week, U.S. officials have concluded that Hellfire missiles fired from a Predator drone operated by the CIA killed a Kenyan citizen who used the name Usama al-Kini and who was described as al-Qaida's chief of operations in Pakistan, as well as his Kenyan lieutenant, identified as Sheik Ahmed Salim Swedan, the official told The New York Times.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• January 09, 2009

• Congressional Hearings Set On Guantanamo

Within hours of the high court's ruling that the military tribunals were illegal under U.S. and international law, President [Bush] said he would work with Congress to fix the problem. Still, Bush vowed that the result "won't cause killers to be put out on the street. I'm confident that we can come up with a framework that guarantees we comply with the court's order but at the same time none of the bad people are set free," [John McCain], R-Ariz., told NBC's "Today" show. Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, [Salim Ahmed Hamdan]'s Navy lawyer, said he told the Yemeni about the ruling by telephone. "I think he was awe-struck that the court would rule for him, and give a little man like him an equal chance. Where he's from, that is not true," Swift said.

• Arab American News, The
• August 10, 2009

• Release of 2 Detainees Hurts U.S. Legal Strategy ; Pentagon Might Appeal; Democrats Assail Prosecution

WASHINGTON Failed attempts to charge two terror suspects have left the Pentagon scrambling to determine a next step and emboldened Democrats, who said the rulings exposed a flawed court system. Military judges ruled Monday that the Pentagon could not prosecute Salim Ahmed Hamdan and Omar Khadr because they had not first been identified as "unlawful" enemy combatants, as required by a law passed last year by Congress.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• June 07, 2007

• Judgment at Guantanamo

It was altogether fitting that a military commission's verdict in the war crimes trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's erstwhile driver, was rendered on Aug. 6, 2008. That date marked the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Its five-year death toll approximated 200,000, emblematic of the frightful horrors of World War II when the existence of Western civilization lay in the balance. Upon witnessing an atomic test at Alamogordo, N.M., father of the bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted from the Bhagavad-Gita: "Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.

• The Washington Times
• August 12, 2008