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Miscarriage of Justice: The Omar Khadr case & the family of monsters

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By Douglas J. Hagmann 2 November 2010: On Sunday, 31 October 2010, a military jury handed down a 40-year sentence to Omar KHADR, a Canadian teenage al Qaeda terrorist who killed U.S. Special Forces Sergeant First Class Christopher  Speer and wounded several others in a grenade attack in Afghanistan in July 2002. The Canadian born Khadr also admitted to planting mines in Afghanistan before being captured that were constructed to kill or injure U.S. and allied forces. Khadr holds the distinction of being the only person in modern history to be charged for war crimes committed as a minor. Lest Amy Goodman, the American progressive and principal host of Democracy Now (and someone who has apparently never met a terrorist who hasn’t tugged at her heartstrings) becomes too despondent, it is unlikely that Khadr will serve more than eight years in prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on November 02, 2010 (boomark / email).