Khadr's only hope for a fair trial is in Canada: lawyer

[tuvor]

Source: CBC

Canadian Omar Khadr will likely be convicted of murder by a U.S. military tribunal even though there's no hard evidence he committed the crime, his U.S. lawyer told a parliamentary committee Tuesday.

Lt.-Cmdr. William Kuebler told the committee in Ottawa that his client's only hope of a fair trial is if he's repatriated to Canada to face criminal proceedings here.

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"There is almost no real evidence to support the proposition that Omar actually threw a hand grenade in July 2002 that killed a U.S. soldier," Kuebler told the committee.

"Omar will probably nonetheless be convicted of murder by the military commission for little more than having survived the firefight."

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/04/29/khadr-kuebler.html

[PSPS]

1. Welcome to bush's amerika

If your death will help the chances of the GOP, you're toast whether you did anything or not.

[HeresyLives]

2. Then he's sunk

because Harper hasn't made the slightest effort to bring him home, and he was only 15 when it happened. :(

[Caradoc]

4. Sins of the father...

...yep, Taliban or not, Canada has a responsibility for its own citizens when they're implicated in crimes abroad. Just ask Brenda Martin. Too bad Stephen Harper would rather do nothing and hope it goes away than do the right thing in fear of alienating his hard right knuckle-dragging base.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R