Posted on 10/25/2010 12:31:16 PM PDT by Nachum
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - It took less than an hour inside a sombre military courtroom Monday for Canadian Omar Khadr to plead guilty to murdering an American soldier and end a war crimes case that has dragged on for eight years. The Toronto-born detainee told military judge Army Col. Patrick Parrish that he understood the charges, his confession, and the conditions of a plea agreement. In addition to pleading guilty to throwing a grenade when he was 15 that fatally wounded Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer, Khadr is convicted of attempted murder, spying, conspiracy and providing material support to terrorism.
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Is this one of the Gitmo detainees that the Left has been saying for years was an innocent kid?
Whatever happened to the Army guy who killed a bunch of his buddies with a grenade over in Iraq? Or was it Afganistan? IIRC he was a black convert to the religion of peace? Promotion? O’s Cabinet?
He killed his fellow officers before combat had even begun again, if I recall.
His were among the first “Bush's fault” deaths tallied by the Left.
I looked at the article, looks like he gets 8 years in prison and after a year, he can apply to be transferred to Canada. He should spend his prison time here in the US !
He is from the Khadr family whose leader joined Al Qaeda in Peshawar in the early 1980s. They later moved to Canada and were involved in a charity that sent funds to Al Qaeda. This kid is no shrinking violet. He is the product of his grandfather and father, both of whom have a terrorist pedigree.
Convicted and sentenced to....? 60 hours of community service I’m betting.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2614314/posts
Detainee Pleads Guilty at Military Commission Hearing [Omar Khadr]
DEFENSE.gov - No. 972-10 ^ | October 25, 2010 | n/a
Posted on October 25, 2010 1:45:12 PM PDT by Cindy
Wasn’t that actually in Kuwait?
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