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By Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A U.S. war crimes tribunal on Sunday sentenced a young Canadian to 40 years in prison, but he may serve only a few more years under a deal that included his admission he was an al Qaeda...
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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.
Credit: Reuters/Janet Hamlin/Pool
By Jane Sutton
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba |
Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:08pm EDT
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A U.S. war crimes tribunal on Sunday sentenced a young Canadian to 40 years in prison, but he may serve only a few more years under a deal that included his admission he was an al Qaeda conspirator who murdered a U.S. soldier.
Toronto native Omar Khadr's plea agreement capped his sentence at eight years, in addition to the eight he has already spent in detention at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba.
The deal calls for Guantanamo's youngest prisoner to be sent home to Canada in one year to serve the rest of his sentence. Washington and Ottawa exchanged diplomatic notes that said both governments supported the transfer, and acknowledged Khadr could apply for parole in Canada after serving one third of the sentence.
Khadr pleaded guilty last week to all five charges against him, including conspiring with al Qaeda to commit terrorist acts, making roadside bombs to target U.S. troops in Afghanistan, spying on American military convoys and providing material support for terrorism.
Khadr was 15 years old when captured in Afghanistan in 2002 and is now 24. He is the first person since World War Two to be prosecuted in a war crimes tribunal for acts committed as a juvenile.
Now tall and broad-shouldered with a full beard, Khadr stared at the seven U.S. military officers of the jury as the sentence was read, then seemed to smile in relief.
Tabitha Speer, the widow of the U.S. special forces soldier Khadr admitted murdering with a grenade, cheered and raised a fist in the air.
She later called the jury's 40-year sentence "a victory not just for my family but for hundreds of families out there."
Her husband, Sergeant 1st Class Christopher Speer, was among more than 1,000 U.S. troops killed in hostilities during the ongoing war in Afghanistan. Khadr is the only person held liable for any of those deaths.
A former U.S. soldier blinded in one eye during the battle that led to Khadr's capture called the eight-year cap "an outrage" and the result of "political meddling."
CASE DRAGGED ON FOR YEARS
The chief prosecutor, Navy Captain John Murphy, denied he faced political pressure from the U.S. and Canadian governments to resolve a case that had dragged on for five years.
He said the plea deal provided certainty in the strongest terms -- Khadr's own admission of guilt under oath -- and spared the Speer family from the possibility of appeals.
"This case is over today," Murphy said.
The chief defense lawyer, Marine Colonel Jeffrey Colwell, said he did not think Khadr posed any risk at all.
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Oct 31, 2010 10:14pm EDT
I am really concerned about the US abolishing of the Geneva convention and the new rules which say soldiers are just war criminals.
In the future enemies will use the US way of dealing with POW’s, that is they are murderers. The death penalty applies to murder in many countries so no more POW’s just shoot them.
This puts our brave young men in a fight to the death whenever they are in combat. There will be no medical care for our captured wounded, just a bullet to the head.
If this had occurred during the Vietnam war the 591 US POW’s who finally got out would have been executed by the NVA.
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