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May 6, 2008

Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr

by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, USA - A US military judge dismissed the argument Friday that Guantanamo’s youngest detainee, Omar Khadr, was a child soldier when captured in Afghanistan and therefore in need of protection and not prosecution. US Army Colonel Peter Brownback’s ruling clears the way for Khadr’s trial, which will be the first war crimes trial in history of anyone under the age of eighteen.

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