Guantanamo

UK to compensate Guantanamo ex-detainees: report (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

Demonstrators dressed as prisoners, protest against the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, outside the Ministry of Defence in London, February 6, 2010. REUTERS/Luke MacgregorReuters - Britain is set to pay out millions of pounds in compensation to former detainees held in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, British media said Tuesday.


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Guantanamo Canadian to serve 8 more years in prison (Reuters)

October 31st, 2010

Reuters - A U.S. war crimes tribunal Sunday sentenced Canadian captive Omar Khadr to 40 years in prison for charges that included murdering an American soldier in battle, but his…

Punish Canadian severely, Guantanamo court urged (Reuters)

October 30th, 2010

A courtroom sketch shows defendant Omar Khadr, a native of Toronto, Canada, listening to testimony during his sentencing hearing at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, October 26, 2010. REUTERS/Janet Hamlin/PoolReuters - A prosecutor urged a U.S. war crimes tribunal on Saturday to sentence a young Canadian and admitted al Qaeda murderer to 25 more years in prison and said…

Widow to Guantanamo convict: “You’re a murderer” (Reuters)

October 28th, 2010

Defendant Omar Khadr, a native of Toronto, Canada, listens to testimony during his commissions trial at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, in this courtroom sketch October 27, 2010. Khadr, who was 15 and gravely wounded when captured during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, admitted he conspired with al Qaeda and killed a U.S. soldier with a grenade. Khadr plead guilty in a plea deal that could send him home to serve the rest of his sentence in Canada within the year. REUTERS/Janet Hamlin/PoolReuters - A U.S. soldier’s widow glared across the courtroom at the young Canadian prisoner who killed her husband with a grenade in Afghanistan and told him on Thursday, “You…

Guantanamo convict’s victim recalled as a hero (Reuters)

October 27th, 2010

Reuters - Six days before a young Canadian lobbed a fatal grenade at a U.S. soldier, that soldier had run into a minefield and rescued two injured Afghan children, the…

Guantanamo made Omar Khadr more dangerous, doctor says (Reuters)

October 26th, 2010

Reuters - A Canadian who admitted he was a teen terrorist has grown more dangerous after being “marinated in radical jihadism” at the Guantanamo detention camp, a psychiatrist told a…

Lawyers working on deal for youngest at Guantanamo (AP)

October 15th, 2010

AP - Lawyers for the youngest detainee at Guantanamo said Thursday they are working on a deal to settle charges that he allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, prompting…

Trial to begin for Guantanamo’s youngest prisoner (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 - Eight years after his capture as a teenager on an Afghan battlefield, a long-delayed trial is beginning Tuesday for Guantanamo’s youngest detainee.


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Guantanamo gears up for 1st trial under Obama (AP)

August 8th, 2010

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, Canadian defendant Omar Khadr attends a hearing at the Camp Justice compound on Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba, in April 2010. Khadr, a Canadian captured at age 15 by US troops in Afghanistan, goes on trial Tuesday at the US naval base in Guantanamo in the first test for President Barack Obama's military commissions.(AFP/Pool/File/Janet Hamlin)AP - U.S. military officers were flying in Sunday to serve as jurors in war-crimes proceedings as the Guantanamo tribunal system geared up for one of its busiest weeks under…

US reaches plea deal at Guantanamo military trial (AP)

July 8th, 2010

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. military, defendant Ibrahim al-Qosi (L) sits with a member of his defense team inside the courthouse for the U.S. war crimes commission, at the Camp Justice compound, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, July 15, 2009. REUTERS/Janet Hamlin/PoolAP - One of the first terrorism suspects taken to Guantanamo Bay reached a plea deal Wednesday with military prosecutors, giving President Barack Obama’s administration its first conviction of a…