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A lawyer for the widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan is slated to square off in court in Toronto today against counsel for Omar Khadr. They want an injunction aimed at preserving any money the federal government paid Khadr for breaching his rights.
Lawyers for the widow of a U.S. soldier slain in Afghanistan have filed court papers in Canada formally seeking to take millions of dollars away from a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing the soldier. Omar Khadr was reportedly paid 10.5 million Canadian dollars by Canada's government last week under a court ruling that his rights were violated by Canadian officials while he was locked up at the U.S. military base on Cuba.
TORONTO>> A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan has received a multimillion-dollar payment from Canada's government after a court ruling said his rights were abused, a Canadian official said today. The official confirmed that Omar Khadr has been given the money.
The lawyer for the widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan said Tuesday they have filed an application so that any money paid by the Canadian government to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner convicted of killing him will go toward the widow and another U.S. soldier injured. Lawyer Don Winder made the comments as a decision by the Canadian government to apologize and give millions of dollars to Omar Khadr came under mounting criticism.
The lawyer for the widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan said Tuesday they have filed an application so that any money paid by the Canadian government to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner convicted of killing him will go toward the widow and another U.S. soldier injured. Lawyer Don Winder made the comments as a decision by the Canadian government to apologize and give millions of dollars to Omar Khadr came under mounting criticism.
The Canadian government is going to apologize and give millions to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15, with Canada's Supreme Court later ruling that officials had interrogated him under "oppressive circumstances." An official familiar with the deal said Tuesday that Omar Khadr will receive 10.5 million Canadian dollars .
A decision by the Canadian government to apologize and give millions of dollars to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan came under mounting criticism on Tuesday. An official familiar with the deal said Tuesday that Omar Khadr will receive 10.5 million Canadian dollars .
A Navy prosecutor said unauthorized, unidentified people "unintentionally" overheard detainees consulting with their attorneys at a special, irregular meeting site in the latest controversy over attorney-client privacy at the prison. "Any characterization regarding an intrusion in the attorney-client relationship is misleading," said Cmdr.
Protestors in orange jumpsuits and black hoods stood outside U.S. Southern Command in 90-degree heat Sunday, holding signs with phrases like "Close Gitmo now" and "I am still waiting for your humanity." Around 30 protestors marched from Trump National Doral to Southcom in a call to shut down the prison in Cuba.
Lawyers who work at a camp at Guantanamo Bay filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that the Pentagon failed to properly investigate health hazards at facilities there that contain carcinogens. The lawyers, who work at the facilities for several weeks in a year, say the US Navy failed to follow up on reports of high cancer cases among young and otherwise healthy people who work at Camp Justice, the complex where they work on detainees' cases.
He wasn't kidding. Now, as leader of the free world, he gets up in the morning and, long before receiving his intelligence briefing , he flips on cable news and starts tweeting.
Some of Donald Trump's boasts from the first weeks of his presidency were dashed by developments in recent days. For example, builders of the Keystone XL pipeline were let off the hook from a buy-American requirement that Trump had promised.
U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2006. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday said he is in favor of bringing new enemy combatants to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reversing eight years of Obama administration policy aimed at shrinking the population at the military detention facility in the hopes of eventually closing it .
Donald Trump targeted the wrong president when he criticised the Obama administration for releasing "122 vicious prisoners" from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre who later resumed militant activities. The latest report from the office of the Director of National Intelligence shows that 122 men who were held at the US base in Cuba are confirmed to have re-engaged in hostilities after they were released.
The disclosure that the government paid 1 million compensation for unfair detainment to a British suicide bomber who was operating for so-called Islamic State seems scandalous. But a senior lawyer with a close knowledge of the case says the then Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, would have felt he had no choice - in that failure to make the out-of-court settlement with Jamal al-Harith would have resulted in highly sensitive security information being disclosed in a court case.
A suicide bomber who attacked a military base in Iraq this week was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee freed in 2004 after Britain lobbied for his release, raising questions about the ability of security services to track the whereabouts of potential terrorists. The Islamic State group identified the bomber as Abu Zakariya al-Britani, and two British security officials also confirmed the man was a 50-year-old Briton formerly known as Ronald Fiddler and as Jamal al-Harith.
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Detention Center Camp 6, which can house as many as 175 people, now holds 26 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Trump has promised to send more war captives to Guantanamo Bay.
This May 14, 2008 file photo shows a guard tower in the abandoned Camp X-Ray, the original and temporary detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. The U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appears to be at another turning point.
The White House conceded Tuesday that it wouldn't close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by the time President Obama leaves office later this week, but it hasn't stopped releasing detainees in the run-up to Inauguration Day. The administration announced it had transferred 10 detainees to Oman, reducing the number still in the facility to 45. Press Secretary Josh Earnest did not rule out the possiblity of more releases in the coming days.