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SUPREME COURT A Navy lawyer who represents a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, says his client is "awe-struck" following today's Supreme Court ruling.

The nation's highest court rebuked President Bush and his anti-terror policies, ruling that his plan to try Guantanamo detainees in military tribunals violates U-S and international law.

The ruling focused on Salim Ahmed Hamdan (sah-LEEM' ahk-MEHD'-hahm DAHN), a one-time driver for Osama bin Laden who has spent four years in the U-S prison at Guantanamo. He faces a single count of conspiring to commit terrorism.

Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift says he told Hamdan about the ruling by telephone. Swift says he thinks Hamdan was "awe-struck that the court would rule for him, and give a little man like him an equal chance."

SOURCE: Associated Press