Bin Laden 'bodyguard' freed

A Moroccan prisoner released from the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2004, was Osama bin Laden’s top bodyguard, the war crimes trial of the terror leader’s driver heard.

Defendant Salim Hamdan said in a 2002 interrogation that his reputed boss, Moroccan, Abdellah Tabarak, was head of the al-Qaida chief’s security detail, said US Naval Criminal Investigative Service agent Michael St Ours.