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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (399108)	7/15/2008 8:17:32 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578704

"Omar Ahmed Khadr (born September 19, 1986) was captured by American forces at the age of 15 following a four-hour firefight with militants in the village of Ayub Kheyl, Afghanistan.[1] A Canadian citizen born in Toronto,[2][3] he is the youngest prisoner held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by the United States and has been frequently referred to as a child soldier.[4][5] The only Western citizen remaining in Guantanamo, Khadr is unique in that Canada has refused to seek extradition or repatriation despite the urgings of Amnesty International, UNICEF, the Canadian Bar Association and other prominent organisations.[6][7][8][9] Khadr is the only Guantanamo detainee who has faced a judge and who is not boycotting the military tribunals,[10] and has spent six years in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps charged with war crimes and providing support to terrorism after allegedly throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier.[11] In February 2008, the Pentagon accidentally released documents that revealed that although Khadr was present during the firefight, there was no other evidence that he had thrown the grenade. In fact, military officials had originally reported that another of the surviving militants had thrown the grenade just before being killed.[12]" en.wikipedia.org