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Former boy soldier, youngest Guantanamo detainee, heads toward military tribunal

Khadr is drawing the Obama administration into a fierce debate over the propriety of putting a child soldier on trial.

http://snipurl.com/ubyef



Khadr Routinely Trussed Up In Cage, Hearing Told

By Paul Koring

Omar Khadr, then a gravely wounded 15-year-old, was routinely trussed up in a cage "in one of the worst places on Earth," according to a hulking former military interrogator nicknamed Monster who says he felt sorry for the Canadian and brought him books and treats.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25396.htm



The Torture of Omar Khadr, a Child in Bagram and Guantánamo:

Are we so inured to the implementation of torture by the Bush administration that we no longer recognize what torture is?

http://snipurl.com/w7nq1



Spanish prosecutors want 13 CIA agents arrested

Spanish prosecutors are asking a judge to issue arrest warrants for 13 CIA agents who they believe were involved in the spy agency's 2004 "extraordinary rendition" of a German citizen, according to Spain's El Pais newspaper.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/05/spanish_prosecutors_want_13_ci.html


From Information Clearing House

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Omar Khadr's Trial Continues; Interrogation Video Introduced

Carol Rosenberg, The Miami Herald: "An Army Special Forces officer testified Saturday that he altered a field report to directly implicate a Canadian detainee now being held at Guantanamo in a fatal grenade attack in Afghanistan years later because he realized that he got it wrong and wanted to fix the historical record."

http://www.truthout.org/changes-key-guantanamo-evidence-innocent-officer-says59073



Interrogator Says Guantanamo Detainee Omar Khadr Was Told He'd Likely Be Raped in US

Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald: "To get teen terror suspect Omar Khadr to cooperate, a former U.S. Army interrogator testified Thursday, he told the wounded Canadian a 'fictitious' tale of an Afghan youth who was gang-raped in an American prison and died."

http://www.truthout.org/interrogator-says-guantanamo-detainee-omar-khadr-was-told-hed-likely-be-raped-us59250



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