[FOX] The Canadian government will apologize and give millions to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15, an official said Tuesday.
An official familiar with the matter told the Associated Press that Omar Khadr
| ...full name Omar Ahmed Sayid Khadr, he is a scion of a family so radical that the Pakistanis arrested his father in 1995 for terrorism... |
will receive $8 million. The deal was negotiated with Khadr’s lawyers and the Canadian government last month.
Khadr was 15 when he was captured by U.S. troops
following a firefight at a suspected Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of U.S. Special Forces medic, U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer. Khadr, who was suspected of throwing the grenade that killed Speer,
| ...among other warlike actions in accordance with his training... |
was taken to Guantanamo and ultimately charged with war crimes by a military commission.
The Canadian-born Khadr pleaded guilty in 2010 to charges that included murder and was sentences to eight years plus the time he had already spent in custody.
| Actually, the GITMO military tribunal prosecutor asked for 25 years. The jury sentenced him to 40. President Obama's Pentagon Chief War Crimes Prosecutor, Navy Capt. John F. Murphy, clearly had his marching orders to settle the plea deal before the jury began deliberations, though it was not announced until after they had left the room, according to our archives. |
He returned to Canada two years later to serve the remainder of his sentence and was released in May 2015 pending an appeal of his guilty plea, which he said was made under duress.
The Canadian Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that Canadian intelligence obtained evidence from Khadr under "oppressive circumstances," such as sleep deprivation, during interrogations at Guantanamo Bay in 2003, and then shared that evidence with U.S officials.
| But the apology and payout was made as Pretty Boy Trudeau dances around the prime minister's office, not on Stephen Harper's watch. |
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