Judge rejects Khadr's child soldier defence

[tuvor]

Source: Toronto Star

OTTAWA–Rejecting the argument that Omar Khadr was a child soldier when captured in Afghanistan and should be rehabilitated rather than prosecuted, a U.S. military judge has pushed his war crimes trial forward and prompted Canada's opposition parties to demand he be brought home.

U.S. Army Col. Peter Brownback's ruling yesterday supports the Pentagon's position that there is no minimum age for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay and that international law does not prohibit the trial of someone under the age of 18, Khadr's lawyers said.

A copy of that decision was provided to the lawyers, but had yet to be released publicly.

"We don't believe it's a fair process," Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion told the Toronto Star yesterday after meeting Khadr's U.S. lawyers. "They don't want to take into account that he was 15 years old."



Read more: http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/420216

[ToughLuck]

1. The judge Bush related I wonder

[atreides1]

2. The judge will get that first star for sure now.

[pattmarty]

3. Simply disgusting. This is like Nazi Germany or Stalin's Russia.

[Bo]

4. Welcome to hell....on earth

When will these monsters stop. Evil is as Evil does.

[coalition_unwilling]

5. It wouldn't be a kangaroo court if it didn't accept baby kangaroos -n/t