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US Prepares for Guantanamo Trial of Youngest Detainee

   VOA News 08 August 2010

Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS

   In  this  April  28,  2010  file photo of a sketch by courtroom artist
   Janet  Hamlin  and  reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official,
   Canadian  defendant  Omar  Khadr  attends  his  hearing  for  the U.S.
   military  war  crimes  commission  at  the  Camp  Justice  compound on
   Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.

   Final  preparations  were  under  way  Sunday for the first war crimes
   trial under U.S. President Barack Obama.
   Canadian  citizen Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay,
   Cuba detention center, was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was
   just 15.
   Khadr,  now  23,  is  accused  of lobbing a grenade that killed a U.S.
   soldier,  Army  Sgt.  1st  Class Christopher Speer of Albuquerque, New
   Mexico.    Khadr  faces  a  maximum  life  sentence  if convicted of
   charges  including  murder,  conspiracy  and spying.  His trial could
   begin Tuesday after pre-trial hearings.
   A  separate  military  commission will begin deliberations Monday on a
   sentence  for  Ibrahim  Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, a Sudanese detainee who
   pleaded  guilty  last  month  to  one  count  each  of  conspiracy and
   providing material support for terrorism.
   Al-Qosi  was  accused of acting as accountant, paymaster, supply chief
   and cook for al-Qaida during the 1990s.  He allegedly worked later as
   a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
   Some information for this report provided by AP.

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