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Jury selection on at 1st Gitmo trial under Obama (AP)

August 10th, 2010

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME TO IGLESIAS ** Captain Dave Iglesias, spokesman for the military commission prosecuting Omar Khadr, speaks to reporters at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. Khadr, 23, is due to stand trial for war crimes allegedly committed when he was 15 years old. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Colin Perkel)AP - A smiling Omar Khadr appeared in a suit and tie Tuesday and greeted prospective jurors at the start of his trial, billed by defense lawyers as the first war-crimes prosecution of a child soldier since World War II.


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