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Share this page Bin Laden chef sentenced to 14 years in jail Osama Bin Laden's former cook and driver has been sentenced to 14 years in prison by a Guantanamo Bay tribunal.
Sudanese-born Ibrahim al-Qosi had admitted conspiracy and providing support for terrorism.
However,he could serve far less time because of a plea deal which is likely to remain secret for several weeks.
Under the agreement, Qosi also admitted working as Bin Laden's bodyguard and helping him avoid capture by US forces.
The sentence will now be reviewed by the Pentagon.
Qosi, 50, was detained by US forces in 2001 after fleeing an al-Qaeda hide-out in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains.
He has admitted running a kitchen in Bin Laden's compound while being aware that al-Qaeda was a terrorist organisation, the BBC's Steve Kingstone in Washington reports.
At his sentencing hearing, military prosecutors said Qosi had insulted the tribunal's intelligence by insisting he was a mere cook.
He is only the fourth person held at Guantanamo Bay to be convicted, and the first since President Barack Obama took office in 2009.
The centre has held more than 800 alleged militants of whom about 180 remain in custody.
Mr Obama had pledged to shut the controversial facility by January this year, but a deadlock with Congress over where to house remaining detainees delayed the plan.

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Share this page Police hunt for McCluskey and Welch expands to Arkansas US police have expanded their hunt for an escaped prisoner and his alleged accomplice to Arkansas, 1,600 miles (2,575km) from the last reported sighting.
John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch, his fiancee, are suspected of robbing a beauty salon in Gentry, Arkansas.
Ms Welch was last seen on Sunday in a restaurant in Saint Mary, Montana.
McCluskey, jailed for attempted murder, fled an Arizona prison on 30 July. Ms Welch is accused of aiding his escape.
The US Marshals Service says McCluskey has grown a short beard and moustache, while Ms Welch has dyed her hair blonde.
A Marshals Service official cautioned that while the couple who robbed Kut and Curl beauty salon in Arkansas matched McCluskey's and Ms Welch's descriptions, they have yet to be positively linked to the scene.
“We are not taking our eyes off of some of the other leads that we were following in the north-west,” Supervisory Deputy US Marshal Rich Tracy told the BBC by phone from Phoenix, Arizona.
“We are still concentrating our search in south-western Canada and Montana, but we definitely need to determine whether or not it was them in Gentry this morning.”
The Associated Press reported that Ms Welch's mother lived near Gentry, a small town of about 3,000 in the north-west of the state, near the border with Missouri.
Officials have been searching both sides of the US-Canada border in recent days, believing McCluskey, 45, and Ms Welch, 44, to be hiding in Montana or southern Canada.
The international police agency Interpol added the pair to its fugitive list on Wednesday, distributing a notice to police in 188 countries.
“Members of the public are urged not to approach them, but instead to immediately report any sightings to their local police,” said Jean-Michel Louboutin, Interpol's executive director of police services.
Officials say McCluskey and fellow inmates Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick escaped from Arizona State Prison in Kingman, Arizona, after Ms Welch, who is also McCluskey's cousin, threw wire cutters over a jail fence.
Renwick was arrested on 1 August and Province was recaptured on Monday.
McCluskey was serving a 15-year prison sentence after being convicted of attempted murder, aggravated assault and discharge of a firearm.

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Police say an escaped prisoner and his alleged accomplice may have fled to Montana or southern Canada.
John McCluskey, convicted of attempted murder, broke out of an Arizona prison on 30 July. Officials say his fiance Casslyn Welch aided his escape.
Officials say the pair see themselves as a modern-day “Bonny and Clyde” after the infamous 20th Century American outlaws.
Another fugitive who had escaped with McCluskey was captured on Monday.
US marshals said Ms Welch had been spotted on Monday at a restaurant in Saint Mary, Montana, 18 miles (28km) south of the Canadian border.
“These guys have the ability to get in the car and move relatively easily,” said Fidencio Rivera, chief deputy US marshal for the Arizona district, according to the Associated Press news agency.
Officials say McCluskey and fellow inmates Tracy Province and Daniel Renwick escaped from Arizona State Prison after Ms Welch, who is also McCluskey's cousin, threw wire cutters over a jail fence.
Many small roads cross the border in the remote area where US and Canadian law enforcement have focused their search, and officials caution it is nearly impossible to secure the border there completely.
Renwick was arrested on 1 August and Province was recaptured on Monday.
McCluskey, who had been convicted of attempted murder, aggravated assault and discharge of a firearm, was serving a 15-year prison sentence.

Source:BBC