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Witness: Hamdan Had 2 Missiles When Arrested

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"He worked for wages -- he didn't wage attacks on America," said Harry Schneider, one of Hamdan's civilian attorneys. "He had a job because he had to earn a living, not because he had a jihad against America."

The military judge in the case ruled Monday night that prosecutors cannot use as evidence some statements Hamdan gave interrogators because they were obtained under "highly coercive" conditions while he was a captive in Afghanistan.

But the judge, Navy Capt. Keith J. Allred, declined a defense request to suppress admissions made by Hamdan after he arrived at Guantanamo. Prosecutors on Tuesday began to introduce evidence from several of those interrogations.

The jurors include an Army colonel who said in court Monday she was "obviously upset" that her college roommate was in the Pentagon during the Sept. 11 attacks; an Army lieutenant colonel who is an expert on radical Islam; and a Marine lieutenant colonel who said he had read that Hamdan was "Osama bin Laden's driver."

Legal experts said it is difficult to find objective jurors from a U.S. military that is engaged in a global battle against terrorism. But prosecutors said they are certain the panel will be fair.

Staff researcher Julie Tate in Washington contributed to this report.

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