Guantanamo ‘child soldier’ jailed
A former teenage al Qaida fighter has been sentenced to eight more years in custody under a plea deal revealed after a military sentencing jury said he should serve 40 years for war crimes. Omar Khadr looked straight ahead as a military judge at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba imposed the eight-year sentence. The sentence ended a legal odyssey that began when the Canadian son of a major al Qaida figure was captured at 15 with severe wounds in Afghanistan in 2002, following a four-hour firefight. Khadr, now 24, pleaded guilty on October 25 to five war crimes including murder for throwing a grenade that fatally wounded American special forces medic Sgt Christopher Speer. Military prosecutors said it…
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Guantanamo ‘child soldier’ jailed
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