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US Still Seeks Jail for 'Fighter' Captured at 15 in Afghanistan
Lindorff, Dave
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/12/us-still-seeks-jail-for-fighter-captured-at-15-in-afghanistan/Date Written: 2015-05-12 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2015 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX17773 The good news is that a judge in Canada has had the courage and good sense to uphold the release from jail on bail of Omar Khadr, a native of Canada who was captured as a child soldier at the age of 15 in Afghanistan by US forces back in 2002.The bad news is that Khadr, who spent 13 years in captivity, most of them in America's Guantanamo hellhole, should never have been imprisoned in the first place. Subject Headings |