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In 2002 Omar Khadr, a fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen, was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier. Khadr was transferred to Guantánamo where he would remain without trial until October 2010 when a military commission admitted evidence considered tainted by Canadian courts. A plea bargain and guilty plea initiated his promised return to Canada a year later. In Omar Khadr, Oh Canada, to be released in June, over thirty contributors analyze Khadr's background, his incarceration, the actions of Canadian authorities, and the implications raised by his legal case.
Today, Ottawa and Washington are close to approving Khadr's transfer back to Canada. According to the CBC:
A "frustrated" Omar Khadr could be back in Canada by the end of May, with both Ottawa and Washington poised to approve his transfer from Guantanamo Bay, where the convicted war criminal has been held for almost a decade, The Canadian Press has learned.
A source familiar with the file said U.S. Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta was expected to sign off on the transfer within a week.
"It's on his desk, it's ready," the source said Wednesday.
"The U.S. has no concerns about (Khadr)."
Khadr has been caught up in a bureaucratic "Catch-22" since becoming eligible to leave the American prison on Cuba last October under terms of a plea agreement struck a year earlier.
The Toronto-born Khadr, 25, pleaded guilty before a much maligned U.S. military commission to five war crimes he committed as a 15-year-old in Afghanistan in July 2002.
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