By Sher Zieve – Terrorist leader Osama bin-Laden’s former driver Salim Ahmed Hamdan lost a legal challenge on Wednesday. Hamdan had sued the US over his continued detention at Guantanamo Bay prison.

Hamdan had previously won a landmark legal decision against the US and President Bush’s administration, when SCOTUS ruled in June that the military tribunal system was illegal. But, on Wednesday US District Judge James Robertson dismissed Hamdan’s most recent case and cited recently authorized anti-terrorism laws.

Judge Robertson is quoted as having written: "Congress unquestionably has the power to establish and define the jurisdiction of the lower federal courts. Until some recent decisions, it had always been understood that an alien captured abroad and detained outside the United States did not have a right to sue in a federal court."

Roberson added that Hamdan would now “face a military commission newly designed, because of his [Hamdan's] efforts, by a Congress that finally stepped up to its responsibility, acting according to guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court.”