Still more on Omar Khadr
jeralyn at talkleft pointed me to this piece from the june 23, 2005, toronto star...
that would explain the low affect described in my earlier post...
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Canada's only known detainee in Guantanamo Bay is 18-year-old Omar Khadr. Documents filed in a Canadian court this week included two psychiatric assessments that concluded the teenager has a serious mental disorder and is at a high risk for suicide.
Khadr is the second youngest son of Ahmed Said Khadr, who was considered before his death in 2003 to be Canada's highest-ranking Al Qaeda financier with close ties to Osama bin Laden.
Omar Khadr was 15 when he was shot three times and captured at a suspected Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in July 2002, following a gun battle with U.S. troops.
In February, his U.S. lawyer told reporters the teenager had been used as a human mop to clean urine on the floor and had been beaten, threatened with rape and tied up for hours in painful positions at Guantanamo Bay.
that would explain the low affect described in my earlier post...
Labels: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Canada, detainee rights, Guantánamo, Military Commissions Act, military tribunals, Omar Khadr, Osama bin Laden, Su, torture, unlawful enemy combatant, war on terror
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posted by profmarcus at
6/04/2007
