Canadian detainee faces Gitmo hearing

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Canadian detainee faces Gitmo hearing
Posted on Thu, Nov. 08, 2007
By MICHAEL MELIA
Associated Press Writer

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- The U.S. military is reviving its long-delayed prosecution of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay with a court hearing Thursday for a former child soldier accused of killing a U.S. Green Beret in Afghanistan.

The tribunal system set up by the Bush administration following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has yet to bring any of the men held at this U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba to trial. One detainee, an Australian, was convicted in March in a pretrial plea bargain.

The case against Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was 15 when he was captured in 2002, presents a new hurdle for the military as it attempts to try him on charges including murder, conspiracy and spying.

Even before Khadr, who is now 21, can enter a plea the judge must resolve the issue of whether he can even legally stand trial here.


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