"The jury was dead-on in refusing to let Hamdan off as the hapless, ill-educated flunky portrayed by his defense lawyers..."

"... and it was equally right in recognizing that he was not an Al Qaeda mastermind," says the Daily News. Meanwhile, at the New York Times, there's the editorial "Guilty as Ordered."

UPDATE: At the sentencing hearing, Hamdan speaks:

"It was a sorry or sad thing to see innocent people killed... I personally present my apologies to them if anything what I did have caused them pain."

He told the military panel deciding his sentence that he had continued working for Mr. bin Laden after a terror attack in 2000 only because he felt he had no options....

UPDATE 2: The sentence is 5 ½ years.