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Miami HeraldArmy lawyer asks Supreme Court to stop Guantánamo trial
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
WASHINGTON -- The Army lawyer defending the last Western captive at Guantánamo turned to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday in a last-ditch bid to stop the upcoming war crimes trial of alleged Canadian terrorist Omar Khadr.
The Toronto-born Khadr, 23, was captured, critically wounded, at age 15 in Afghanistan in a U.S. raid on a suspected al Qaeda compound.
Pentagon prosecutors charge that Khadr committed war crimes for allegedly hurling a grenade that killed a Special Forces soldier in the July 2002 raid. The Pentagon also accuses Khadr of conspiring with al Qaeda to commit terrorism for allegedly helping to plant bombs along Afghan roadways to resist the U.S. invasion to topple the Taliban and route al Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks.
But Army Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, Khadr's Pentagon-appointed defense lawyer, said in a statement Monday that U.S. plans to put him on trial before a military jury at Guantánamo later this month deny the Canadian due process because the court is designed for foreigners not American citizens.
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