Omar Ahmed Khadr (born September 16, 1987 in Ottawa, Ontario), is a Canadian teenager who was captured by American forces in Afghanistan. He is among the youngest prisoners held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Khadr's Guantanamo detainee ID is 766.
...Khadr was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan during a firefight in which he allegedly killed a U.S. Army special forces soldier with a grenade.
"He doesn't trust American lawyers, and I don't particularly blame him," said U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Colby Vokey, who was taken off the case Wednesday. "The United States is responsible for his interrogation and his treatment under a process that is patently unfair."
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Khadr was a child soldier. How can after 5 years of the harshest imprisonment could the US find justice for that or any US Army soldier or their families?
This case seems less about justice and more about revenge.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4850528.html
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