Osama bin Laden’s alleged accountant boycotted a review hearing to evaluate his legal status, the second Guantanamo Bay prisoner in less than a week whose lawyer was prohibited from attending the proceedings.

US OFFICIALS yesterday decided after a review by a military panel that four terror suspects held at Guantanamo are properly classified as “enemy combatants” and will not be freed.

An Afghan prisoner made an impassioned plea for his release, telling a US military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay that he worked as an assistant cook for the Taliban regime but was never an enemy of America.

Hundreds of foreign detainees suspected of terrorist ties will get their first formal opportunity to argue for their release at review panels that the US military is preparing in coming days at its base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.