
Date set for Khadr's military commission appearance in Cuba CBC \|\| January 11, 2006 [KDR: Say what you will about this kid and his family, no one should have to face a military tribunal. If there is evidence against him it should be done in an open court of law. This article doesn't directly mention that this kid was 15 years old when the American's abducted him.] Related - It's Happening in Canada: Five Years of Detention on "Secret Evidence" and without being Charged A Canadian teenager being held at a U.S. base in Cuba is expected to appear before a military commission on Wednesday. Few people have seen Omar Khadr since October 2002, when he arrived at the Guantanamo Bay military base. American officials have charged the 19-year-old with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and aiding the enemy. He's one of only nine of the estimated 500 detainees at Guantanamo to be formally charged. U.S. military officials say Khadr has admitted throwing a grenade that killed an American medic and injured others during combat in Afghanistan. They also allege he attended an al-Qaeda training camp and planted landmines against American forces. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com Canadian intelligence interrogated Khadr twice and Foreign Affairs officials visited him twice in 2005. A department spokesperson said the teenager, who is almost blind in one eye, appeared fine. Canadian officials can't provide regular consular service because the United States deems Khadr an "enemy combatant" and says he is not protected by the Geneva Convention. His American and Canadian lawyers allege Khadr has been denied medical treatment and mistreated. Khadr and his family have made headlines in Canada since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan. The family patriarch, Ahmed Said, an associate of Osama bin Laden, was shot and killed in a shootout with Pakistani police. A son, Karim, was injured in the same shootout. Another son, Abdurahman, spent some time at Guantanamo, but was released. In an interview in March 2004 with CBC, he declared he belonged to an "al-Qaeda family" and said he had been working as a mole for the CIA. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Date set for Khadr's military commission appearance in Cuba

CBC || January 11, 2006

[KDR: Say what you will about this kid and his family, no one should have to face a military tribunal. If there is evidence against him it should be done in an open court of law. This article doesn't directly mention that this kid was 15 years old when the American's abducted him.]

Related - It's Happening in Canada: Five Years of Detention on "Secret Evidence" and without being Charged

A Canadian teenager being held at a U.S. base in Cuba is expected to appear before a military commission on Wednesday.

Few people have seen Omar Khadr since October 2002, when he arrived at the Guantanamo Bay military base.

American officials have charged the 19-year-old with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and aiding the enemy. He's one of only nine of the estimated 500 detainees at Guantanamo to be formally charged.

U.S. military officials say Khadr has admitted throwing a grenade that killed an American medic and injured others during combat in Afghanistan. They also allege he attended an al-Qaeda training camp and planted landmines against American forces.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

Canadian intelligence interrogated Khadr twice and Foreign Affairs officials visited him twice in 2005. A department spokesperson said the teenager, who is almost blind in one eye, appeared fine.

Canadian officials can't provide regular consular service because the United States deems Khadr an "enemy combatant" and says he is not protected by the Geneva Convention.

His American and Canadian lawyers allege Khadr has been denied medical treatment and mistreated.

Khadr and his family have made headlines in Canada since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.

The family patriarch, Ahmed Said, an associate of Osama bin Laden, was shot and killed in a shootout with Pakistani police. A son, Karim, was injured in the same shootout.

Another son, Abdurahman, spent some time at Guantanamo, but was released. In an interview in March 2004 with CBC, he declared he belonged to an "al-Qaeda family" and said he had been working as a mole for the CIA.

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