After EIGHT YEARS in prison..... The US Military in it's wisdom, will prosecute their first case against CHILD SOLIDERS.
Next thing you know they will executing mentally handicapped Americans....oh wait they already do that in
TEXAS
Omar Khadr will finally have his day in court this week after eight years in custody, three different judges and more than a dozen different defence lawyers.
But it’s still not clear whether Khadr will even show up, having threatened to boycott the trial he calls a “sham.”
His lawyer, Lt.-Col. Jon Jackson, told media in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Sunday he didn’t know whether Khadr was planning to attend this week’s trial or even if he will defend himself.
“He has that right,” Jackson said.
But whether or not Jackson defends Khadr, he said he’s disappointed with his government on a number of fronts.
“It’s very clear that the government of the United States and the government of Canada have decided not to intervene in this case,” he said. “So you’ll see the first case against a child soldier in modern history.
“What the government has been selling for the past eight years, nobody should buy, especially the panel members in this case.
“(This case) boils down to who we are … as a people when we decide to charge a child, a person who was 15 years old, a person who was in Afghanistan only because he was made to go there with no other choices.”
Jackson and Khadr’s former Canadian lawyers met with Khadr Sunday, but wouldn’t discuss their meeting.
He did say, though, Khadr is “nervous,” calling the trial which is expected to begin Wednesday “the beginning of the end” of Khadr’s case.
On Monday before his trial starts, the military commission judge, Col. Pat Parrish, will decide whether to admit Khadr’s two confessions as evidence in the long-awaited and historic war crimes trial.
But it’s still not clear whether Khadr will even show up, having threatened to boycott the trial he calls a “sham.”
His lawyer, Lt.-Col. Jon Jackson, told media in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Sunday he didn’t know whether Khadr was planning to attend this week’s trial or even if he will defend himself.
“He has that right,” Jackson said.
But whether or not Jackson defends Khadr, he said he’s disappointed with his government on a number of fronts.
“It’s very clear that the government of the United States and the government of Canada have decided not to intervene in this case,” he said. “So you’ll see the first case against a child soldier in modern history.
“What the government has been selling for the past eight years, nobody should buy, especially the panel members in this case.
“(This case) boils down to who we are … as a people when we decide to charge a child, a person who was 15 years old, a person who was in Afghanistan only because he was made to go there with no other choices.”
Jackson and Khadr’s former Canadian lawyers met with Khadr Sunday, but wouldn’t discuss their meeting.
He did say, though, Khadr is “nervous,” calling the trial which is expected to begin Wednesday “the beginning of the end” of Khadr’s case.
On Monday before his trial starts, the military commission judge, Col. Pat Parrish, will decide whether to admit Khadr’s two confessions as evidence in the long-awaited and historic war crimes trial.
