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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "On Sunday, a military jury at Guantanamo handed down a 40-year sentence to Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen who was just 15 years old when he was seized after a firefight in Afghanistan.... Because the sentence negotiated as part of the plea deal is less than the one delivered by the military jury, the latter will stand only as a symbolic conviction, but it will be seized upon by those who have long wished to have Khadr convicted as a dangerous terrorist. In addition, the 40-year sentence confirms that, since last Monday, when Khadr accepted his plea deal at Guantanamo, two worlds - and two wildly divergent views of American justice - have coexisted unhappily."

http://www.truth-out.org/omar-khadr-jury-hammers-final-nail-into-coffin-american-justice64718

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No end to the shameful treatment of Omar Khadr

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

11/01/11

This week, Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen and former child prisoner, was supposed to leave Guantánamo after nine years and three months in U.S. custody. No one thought that he would return to Canada as a free man because he has another seven years to serve in a Canadian jail as part of a plea deal he made at Guantánamo a year ago; but it was reasonable to expect that he would be transferred to Canadian custody this week, as the plea deal was for an eight-year sentence -- with one year to be served in Guantanamo, followed by seven in Canada...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1111a.asp



Canada s shameful treatment of Omar Khadr

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

04/27/12

Last week, the Canadian government received a formal request for the return of Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay. Julie Carmichael, an aide to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, told the Globe and Mail, 'The government of Canada has just received a completed application for the transfer of prisoner Omar Ahmed Khadr. A decision will be made on this file in accordance with Canadian law'...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1204s.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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I Will Never Forget Omar Khadr

By Nulwee

The U.S. can choose to forget that it captured and tortured a boy for years, physically and psychologically.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32590.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Omar+Khadr
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=torture
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andy+Worthington

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