Bin Laden driver ‘vital’ to 9/11

OSAMA BIN LADEN’s former driver offered the terrorist leader aid and protection that helped make the September 11 attacks possible, prosecutors said yesterday in closing arguments at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial.

Prosecutor John Murphy said evidence in Salim Hamdan’s two-week trial showed the Yemeni detainee played a “vital role” in the conspiracy behind the 2001 attacks.

Hamdan was captured at a roadblock in southern Afghanistan in November 2001 with two surface-to- air missiles in the car.