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ReutersGuantanamo judge rejects charges for CanadianSat Jun 30, 2007 11:27AM EDT
MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. military judge for the Guantanamo
war crimes tribunals has refused to reinstate the charges
against a Canadian prisoner accused of killing a U.S. soldier
in Afghanistan.
The ruling in the case of Canadian captive Omar Khadr was
released late on Friday, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court
said it would hear a challenge of the law that established
the war crimes tribunals and stripped Guantanamo prisoners
of their right to court review of their indefinite confinement.
-snip-A tribunal judge, Army Col. Peter Brownback, dismissed the
murder and conspiracy charges against Khadr on June 4. He
said he lacked jurisdiction to try him because Khadr had
not been designated an "unlawful enemy combatant," as
required under the 2006 law that authorized military
tribunals for foreign terrorism suspects.
Prosecutors asked Brownback to reconsider and reinstate the
charges, but he ruled on Friday that they had presented no
new evidence or arguments.
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