The last Westerner in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility has been transfered out to a maximum security prison in his home country of Canada.
Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002. In 2010, he plead guilty under terms of a plea deal to throwing a grenade at US soldiers engaged in a firefight and killing one.
Khadr spent a decade in Guantanamo where he was severely abused, tortured, and deprived of due process. Now 26, he has been transfered to Ontario, Canada.
The fact that Khadr was subjected to coercive interrogation did not stop the military commissions courts finding him guilty. And as former constitutional law attorney Glenn Greenwald asked, “how can it possibly be that the US invades a foreign country, and then when people in that country — such as Khadr — fight back against the invading army, by attacking purely military targets via a purely military act…they become “war criminals,” or even Terrorists..?”
Now, how about releasing the rest of the prisoners who were cleared years ago?
Interestingly it is another breach of Geneva for the US Military, It is unlawful according to Geneva to induce a prisoner to plead guilty!
Article99
No moral or physical coercion may be exerted on a prisoner of war in order to induce him to admit himself guilty of the act of which he is accused.
even the transfer to a Canadian Prison is unlawful
Article 97
Prisoners of war shall not in any case be transferred to penitentiary establishments (prisons, penitentiaries, convict prisons, etc.) to undergo disciplinary punishment therein.
Before we hear the they are not POWs they are protected persons who have never had their Article 5 hearings. and until they do they are Under Geneva are POWs.
Furthermore, International law denotes a Terrprist attack as one that attacks a CIVILIAN target, one can not make a terrorist attack on the Military, Also note that Article 4 which defines a POW allows for the spontanious taking up of arms to fight an invading army, so even according to the US Militaries charges Khadr was a lawful combatant! For those that argue other parts of Article 4 I suggest you read it in TOTAL.
SOOOOOO good to have intelligent well informed commenters like THE LION here at AW.com,…!!
The BASTARDS who tortured the child soldier and railroaded him under the entire weight of America's PUTRIDDLY CORRUPT LEGAL SYSTEM…….. no doubt they did so to set a precedent to undermine, weaken and destroy Geneva……. Just as the same BASTARDS have done to OUR constitution and Bil of Rights…. HOW MANY CHILDREN HAVE OUR LAST TWO PRESIDENTS KILLED and/or ABUSED…… SPECIAL MENTION AWARD FOR UNPARALLELED CORRUPTION IN THE EXERCISE OF TORTURING CHILDREN……. LINDSEY GRAHAM, JOE LIEBERMAN [THE JOE PATERNO OF THE SENATE] DAVID ADDINGTON, JOHN ASHCROFT JAY BYBEE… I'd add John Yoo's name here… except I see him, as a nobody lackey front man for MONSTERS who hold us hostage in their legal no-mans-land HELL that they have turned America into……. SPECIAL THANKS to THE LION for blowing the whistle on the latest crimes our leaders are up to… Omar Kadir….I hope you find an honest attorney in the great NeoCon land of the North… Canada.. Which purportedly wants to play a larger role in the world……. as America's Poodle overseas….
Most of the free world think the way you do Glen Greenwald "god bless america"