reuters.com - 1/8/2009
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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A Canadian teen was buried facedown under the rubble of a bombed-out compound when someone threw the grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, according to a soldier's report cited at the U.S. war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo on Friday. ...
reuters.com - 1/8/2009
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reuters.com —
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) -
A U.S. military judge on Wednesday indefinitely delayed the...
January trial of a young Afghan captive, leaving the future course of justice at the Guantanamo prison camp in the hands of President-elect ...
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Last Guantanamo trial of Bush era is delayed
thestar.com - 1/8/2009
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thestar.com —
Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA–A
report provided by a U.S. soldier casts doubt once...
more on the Pentagon's assertion that Canadian captive Omar Khadr threw a grenade that killed an American soldier. A military court ...
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Omar Khadr | Doubt cast on Khadr's guilt
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Andy Worthington: The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... In a motion submitted by Khadr's lawyers, the soldier explained that he "thought he was standing on a 'trap door' because the ground did not seem solid." He then "bent down to move the brush away to see what was beneath him and discovered that he was standing on a person; and that Mr. Khadr appeared to be 'acting dead.'" Speaking to reporters, Lt. Cmdr. Kuebler explained that photographs taken at the scene, which were not shown to observers of the trial proceedings, "show a pile of rubble from the collapsed roof, and then show the debris moved aside to reveal Khadr lying ...
The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials
Antiwar.com Original —
... described it, that the teenager "was buried under rubble from a collapsed roof before he was captured." In a motion submitted by Khadr's lawyers, the soldier explained that he "thought he was standing on a 'trap door' because the ground did not seem solid." He then "bent down to move the brush away to see what was beneath him and discovered that he was standing on a person; and that Mr. Khadr appeared to be 'acting dead.'" Speaking to reporters, Lt. Cmdr. Kuebler explained that photographs taken at the scene, which were not shown to observers of the trial proceedings, "show ...
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