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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Lawyer's collapse halts Canadian's Guantanamo trial AFP - Friday, August 13 Send IM Story Print Lawyer's collapse halts Canadian's Guantanamo trial US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (AFP) - – The war crimes trial of a young Canadian came to an abrupt halt after his only military defense lawyer collapsed and was rushed to hospital. After hours of court proceedings that depicted Omar Khadr alternately as an innocent child soldier or a committed jihadist, defense lawyer Lieutenant Colonel Jon Jackson interrupted his examination of a prosecution witness to ask for a five-minute break. After the seven-member military jury left the courtroom, Jackson fell to his knees before fainting, witnesses inside the chamber said. Jackson was rushed by ambulance to a medical facility on the base where he was placed on a morphine drip, said Bryan Broyles, an official with the military defense lawyers' office. Broyles said the incident was thought to be related to gall bladder surgery Jackson underwent six weeks ago. "He felt pain, he tried to drink water, as you know he asked the judge for a quick break. He doesn't remember anything of that," Broyles said after speaking to Jackson. "The doctors will give some more updated diagnosis tomorrow, we don't know what his short term diagnosis is, he could come into court on Monday or it could be a couple of weeks," he said. The incident left uncertainty about whether Khadr's trial could proceed and when. It was also unclear whether Jackson could be treated on the base or would need to be evacuated to the mainland. Khadr's trial is the first full prosecution at Guantanamo since President Barack Obama took office pledging to shutter the controversial facility. Now 23 and the last Westerner held at Guantanamo, Khadr is accused of throwing a hand grenade that killed a US soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan eight years ago, when Khadr was 15. Earlier Thursday, prosecutors sought to depict Khadr as a committed fighter. "'I am a terrorist praying for Al-Qaeda': these are Omar Khadr's own words," chief prosecutor Jeff Groharing said, adding that Khadr's intention was "to kill as many Americans" as possible. But Jackson presented the jury with another equally vivid image, that of Khadr as a frightened boy, bleeding and under fire in a compound with three "bad men" who told him what to do. "Omar Khadr was there because his father told him to go there. Omar Khadr was there because of his father who hated his enemies more than he loved his son," Jackson said. The son of an Al-Qaeda official who was killed in 2003, Khadr grew up in Canada, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was seriously wounded and captured after US special operations forces laid siege to an Al-Qaeda hideout where Khadr allegedly made improvised explosives. He is accused of throwing a grenade that killed Sergeant First Class Christopher Speer during the fighting July 27, 2002 near Khost in eastern Afghanistan. Khadr has been charged with murder in violation of the laws of war, conspiracy and espionage. If he is found guilty, he could be sentenced to life in prison. At the center of the case is a decision by the military judge presiding over the trial, Patrick Parrish, to allow the use as evidence of statement Khadr made to interrogators after undergoing several operations for his wounds in Bagram. The first military official who interrogated him has said he threatened Khadr with rape and murder to make him talk. The interrogator has since been convicted by a military court of mistreating prisoners at Bagram. Other interrogators, who met Khadr later, said he spoke openly with them and freely acknowledged his past. Jackson said Khadr changed his story over the course of the interrogations to make it conform to what the interrogators were telling him. A prosecutor witness, the head of the special forces unit in the fight that day in Khost, a man identified only as "Colonel W," described the four-hour battle in detail Thursday. He said US airstrikes had appeared to kill everyone inside the compound when he began to approach and heard, but did not see, a grenade explosion. Khadr has denied throwing the grenade that killed Speer, who died of a head wound two weeks after the battle. Jackson said the grenade was thrown by the "bad men" in the compound while Khadr fell to the ground bleeding and blinded by the explosion. Khadr lost sight in his left eye in the battle. There are now about 180 detainees left at Guantanamo, but after missing his January 2009 deadline for shuttering the prison, Obama has yet to lay out a definitive timetable for closing the controversial facility. 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