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Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr leaves for Canada
The last Western detainee at Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to his native Canada, reports say.Omar Khadr had been held at the US base in Cuba since 2002, after being detained in Afghanistan aged 15. A military plane carrying Khadr to Canada left at 08:30 GMT, according to Canadian television. He will serve the rest of his eight-year jail term in Canada. He pleaded guilty to killing a US soldier in Afghanistan. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison by a US military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay in 2010 on war crimes charges that also included conspiring to commit terrorist acts. But as part of his plea deal, his sentence was limited to eight years. Under the deal, he became eligible to return to Canada last October. The majority of Canadians supported the campaign to repatriate Khadr, now 26.
Posted by: tipper 2012-09-29 |
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