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.

Osama bin Laden’s alleged bodyguard and chauffeur today becomes Guantanamo Bay’s first terror suspect brought before a US military commission that allows for secret evidence and no government appeals.

Four suspected al-Qaida fighters will be formally charged with war crimes this week as the US military opens the first legal hearings for foreign prisoners held at the US Navy base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

ONE man allegedly worked as an al-Qaida accountant.

Two men alleged to have been bodyguards and aides for Osama bin Laden were charged with conspiracy to commit war crimes and ordered to stand trial before the first US military tribunals convened since World War Two, officials announced today.