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Omar Khadr back in Canada

September 29, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a maximum-security prison in eastern Ontario, after spending a decade at a U.S.-run detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Khadr, 26, left … read more »

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Omar Khadr might be released in less than three years

November 2, 2010 by benim

WASHINGTON — A United States military commission at Guantánamo Bay has sentenced a former child soldier for Al Qaeda to 40 years in prison for war crimes — but he might be released in less than three years, the Defense … read more »

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Guantanamo Canadian to serve 8 more years in prison

October 31, 2010 by benim

A U.S. war crimes tribunal on Sunday sentenced Canadian captive Omar Khadr to 40 years in prison for charges that included murdering an American soldier in battle, but his plea agreement capped his sentence at eight years. That means the … read more »

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Guantanamo convict’s victim recalled as a hero

October 28, 2010 by benim

Six days before a young Canadian lobbed a fatal grenade at a U.S. soldier, that soldier had run into a minefield and rescued two injured Afghan children, the U.S. war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay naval base learned on … read more »

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Omar Khadr admits throwing deadly grenade

October 26, 2010 by benim

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – In the midst of a deadly firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, a 15-year-old Omar Khadr — believing his death was at hand — wanted to kill as many Americans as he could, jurors heard Tuesday as … read more »

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