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July 13, 2010

Omar Khadr Rejects Plea Deal
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The Canadian-born Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr has rejected a U.S.
plea deal that have allowed him to return to Canada in five years if he
admitted to committing war crimes in Afghanistan. In a hand written
statement Khadr said he would not take a plea deal because QUOTE "it
will give excuse for the government for torturing and abusing me when I
was a child." Khadr was 15 years old when US troops imprisoned him in
2002. Khadr has also fired his legal team and threatened to boycott his
Aug. 10 trial.



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