Terror Charges Reinstated Against Omar Khadr
Omar Khadr turned 21 in Guantanamo this week. He's been detained there since he was 15.
A military judge threw out the charges against him on jurisdictional grounds in June. Another judge later upheld that decision.
Today, the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review issued its first opinion. It reinstated the charges against Omar.
The ruling reverses a military judge's June 4 ruling that the tribunal system created by Congress did not have authority to try detainees unless they were first determined to be unlawful enemy combatants.
The New York Times has this more in-depth report on the ruling.
My all-time favorite quote on Omar Khadr is by Jeanne D'Arc at her now defunct Body and Soul blog:
He's eighteen years old. When he was captured in Afghanistan, he was fifteen -- a child turned into a soldier by parents from hell. And our government's response to this victim of child abuse was to abuse him further.
His lawyers have alleged he was tortured.
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