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10-08-10 Torture Confessions by Guantanamo Child Detainee

Allowed as Evidence...

Omar Khadr
Omar Khadr, a Canadian, was 15 when he was accused in 2002 of killing a United States
soldier in Afghanistan during a battle. He was subsequently imprisoned and interrogated
in Afghanistan and at the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba, where he is still
held.
Video footage of his interrogation from February 2003 was released by his lawyers on
July 14, 2008. [1] It shows Mr. Khadr pleading with a Canadian intelligence agent for
help and, at one point, shows him displaying chest and back wounds that had still not
healed months after his capture in Afghanistan.

LINK
[1] http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/news/features/khadr-video.wmv

OMAR KHADR NAVIGATOR

A list of resources from around the Web about Omar Khadr as selected by researchers
and editors of The New York Times.
• Military Commission for Omar Khadr
U.S. Department of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/commissions_exhibits_khadr.html
• Special Focus: Guantanamo, Omar Ahmed Khadr
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/photos/2008/guantanamo/Omar-Khadr.html
• The Omar Khadr Case: A Teenager Imprisoned at Guantanamo
Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/us0607/
• “Inside the Khadr Family”
Frontline, PBS.org
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/khadr/family/
OTHER COVERAGE
• “US Court Weighs Guantanamo Case”
BBC.com, Aug. 24, 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6962596.stm
• Timeline: In Depth Khadr
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News, updated July 15, 2008
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/khadr/timeline.html
VIDEO
• 60 minutes Report on Omar Khadr
http://video.cgi.cbsnews.com/vplayer2/image.pl?size=100x75&id=3509664n

BOOKS
• Guantanamo’s Child
By Michelle Shephard (2008)
The commission has already ruled that confessions made by Khadr which were
clearly... statements Khadr made to interrogators because of torture and other
abuse. .....Ross Douthat uses his New York Times column today to put what he ...
www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html
• 'Torture' Confessions Allowed
By Al Jazeera
The confessions of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen charged with terrorism, can be used
as evidence in his trial, even though they may have been obtained through torture, a US
military judge has ruled.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26122.htm
• Gitmo Trial Puts White House In Tight Spot
By Michael Isikoff National investigative correspondent
Top U.N. official calls defendant a 'child soldier,' says proceedings violate international
legal norms.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26124.htm
• Khadr's torture confessions admissible, military judge rules:
Decision to admit statements despite threats of torture dramatically strengthens
prosecution's case against Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay
http://bit.ly/aohmJq
• Video: 'Child soldier' Gitmo trial draws criticism
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38634007/ns/us_news-security/#slice-2