Posted on 10/25/2010 1:45:12 PM PDT by Cindy
NOTE The following text is a quote:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 972-10 October 25, 2010
Detainee Pleads Guilty at Military Commission Hearing
The Department of Defense announced that Omar Khadr pleaded guilty today in a military commission. In accordance with a pre-trial agreement, Khadr admitted, in open court, to committing murder in violation of the law of war, attempted murder in violation of the law of war, providing material support to terrorism, conspiracy, and spying. His sentence will be determined at a hearing that begins Oct. 26.
Khadr admitted to throwing a grenade on July 27, 2002, that killed Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer after the conclusion of a four-hour firefight between al Qaeda affiliated forces and U.S. military forces, and that he threw the grenade with the intent of killing American or coalition forces. Khadr also admitted that in the months prior to his murder of Speer, he converted landmines to improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and assisted in the planting of ten IEDs with the intent of killing American forces.
In all cases tried by a military commission, the military judge has the duty to ensure the guilty plea is both supported by the facts and voluntarily made before accepting the guilty plea. In this case, Military Judge Col. Patrick Parrish, questioned Khadr at length about his actions and his understanding of his plea. Parrish then indicated that he was satisfied that Khadr understood his rights, the plea was voluntary, and that Khadr did in fact commit the acts that constitute the offenses as charged. This requirement for questioning the underlying facts and voluntariness of the plea safeguards the rights of the accused and guarantees the legitimacy of the plea. Khadr was assisted by two appointed military defense counsel, at no cost to him.
In all military commissions, a panel of military officers known as “members” determines the sentence, regardless of whether the plea was guilty or not guilty. At a hearing scheduled to begin tomorrow, the defense and prosecution will each have an opportunity to present evidence and argument to the members to aid them in determining a sentence.
Under the pre-trial agreement, Khadr agreed to waive his right to trial and plead guilty to the charged offenses in exchange for a limitation on his sentence. Parrish questioned Khadr and determined that he entered into the agreement voluntarily and believed it was in his best interests. In order to preserve the integrity of the sentencing deliberations, the terms of the agreement are not disclosed to the members until after the sentence is announced.
Previously...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167693/posts
Khadr identified Arar as visitor: Witness
CANWEST NEWS SERVICE via CANADA.com ^ | Published: Monday, January 19, 2009 | Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service
Posted on January 19, 2009 3:22:52 PM PST by Cindy
Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service
U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - Accused terrorist Omar Khadr identified Maher Arar as someone he recognized who appeared at an al-Qaida-run “safe” house in Afghanistan, an FBI agent testified at a Guantanamo Bay military commission Monday.
Robert Fuller said Khadr made the identification when he interrogated the Canadian-born terror suspect at Bagram in Afghanistan in October 2002.
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2004/04/the-khadrs-canadas-first-family-of-terrorism
Lion’s Den :: Daniel Pipes Blog
“[The Khadrs:] Canada’s First Family of Terrorism
The Khadrs, Canada’s First Family of Terrorism, in the News”
by Daniel Pipes
April 9, 2004
updated Jun 16, 2010
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2614264/posts
Omar Khadr pleads guilty
Toronto Star ^ | 10/25/10 | Michelle Shephard
Posted on October 25, 2010 12:31:16 PM PDT by Nachum
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - It took less than an hour inside a sombre military courtroom Monday for Canadian Omar Khadr to plead guilty to murdering an American soldier and end a war crimes case that has dragged on for eight years. The Toronto-born detainee told military judge Army Col. Patrick Parrish that he understood the charges, his confession, and the conditions of a plea agreement. In addition to pleading guilty to throwing a grenade when he was 15 that fatally wounded Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer, Khadr is convicted of attempted murder, spying, conspiracy and providing material support to terrorism.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
Canada ping.
stepping back in time...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2505288/posts
‘Agent 11’ details interrogation of Canadian captive at Guantanamo
Stars and Stripes ^ | May 2, 2010 | Carol Rosenberg
Posted on May 2, 2010 5:41:34 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — An anonymous woman testified Friday that, as a young Navy interrogator, she treated Canadian captive Omar Khadr with Fig Newtons and M&Ms — and that he came to sessions happily and confessed to throwing a grenade at U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
“He smiled a lot and was always willing to talk,” said the woman whom court officers identified as “Agent 11.”
Khadr, then 15, was captured, critically wounded, in a July 2002 firefight between U.S. troops and al-Qaida suspects in Khost, Afghanistan, during which a U.S. soldier died from grenade shrapnel wounds. He became a prisoner at Guantanamo three months later.
Khadr’s defense team argues that early in his custody in Afghanistan he was so brutally treated that any subsequent confessions should be excluded from his summertime trial.
But Agent 11 said Khadr never mentioned any abuse in her interrogations, which began at the prison-camps hospital on the day he arrived on an 8,000-mile airlift from Afghanistan.
She sparred with defense lawyers who wanted her to agree he was a child. “He was a teenager,” she said, firmly, adding that although she was a 20-something junior Navy officer, she was chosen to interrogate him “as a mother figure.”
Interrogators left the impression, she said, that cooperation in the interrogation could get him home to Canada, where his mother and sisters were at the time.
Agent 11 said Khadr volunteered details of the gun battle in which he was captured that matched those he told military interrogators in Afghanistan.
He was carrying two pistols and three grenades, wounded with shrapnel wounds in his head, she related. Then he threw a grenade over a three-foot shrub “like it was done in the movies,” and “heard the Americans say, ‘one down.’ “
Prosecutors claim that the grenade fatally wounded Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, 28 — an Albuquerque, N.M., man with Delta Force who was part of a unit attacking the compound — and plan to put him on trial as a terrorist murderer this summer. They seek life imprisonment — not the death penalty — in consideration of his age.
The Toronto-born teen was shot through the back and chest, was left blind in one eye and was discovered by U.S. forces, who took him by car for emergency life-saving treatment.
This is what Agent 11 says he told her: “I kept waiting for the white angels to come because I thought I wasn’t going to live. ... The Americans saved my life.”
I notice that this fearless solider of Allah is copping to a lesser charge. The leg irons and concrete cell sort of take the glamor out of Jihad I guess.
No auto detonation for this one...
http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/10/gitmo-trial-ends-in-guilty-plea
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Gitmo Trial Ends in Guilty Plea”
by IPT News • Oct 25, 2010 at 12:38 pm
SNIPPET: “Last week, a military judge postponed the trial in order to allow time for the attorneys to negotiate a plea deal. Now, Khadr has pled guilty to five charges, including murder. The guilty plea makes Khadr the fifth person to be convicted in military commissions at Guantanamo Bay.
The details of the plea deal were not immediately available, but Khadr is due to be sentenced by a military jury in several days. He is expected to be repatriated to Canada after serving a year of his sentence.”
Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/10/gitmo-trial-ends-in-guilty-plea
Don’t make him a martyr or a terrorist recruiter. Lock him up in solitary for the rest of his life.
Thanks Cindy.
The Former Prime Minister of Canada ( Left-wing kook) actively worked to free his father, the patriarch of the Khadr terrorist family:
In January 1996, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was on a Team Canada trade mission to Pakistan.
Ahmed Said Khadr’s wife and some of their children came to Chrétien’s hotel in Islamabad to plead the case of her husband. The oldest son, Abdullah, who was 15 at the time, remembers his encounter with the Canadian prime minister.
“He told me that ‘once I was a son of a farmer, and I became prime minister. Maybe one day you will become one.’ That was a nice compliment.”
Jean Chrétien raised the Khadr case with the Pakistani prime minister at the time, Benazir Bhutto, and within weeks, Ahmed Said Khadr was released. He resumed his life, which he claimed was devoted to charity work in Afghanistan.
He raised money in Canada that he said he was using to provide food and schooling to Afghan orphans.
U.S. and Canadian Intelligence sources, however, identified Ahmed Said Khadr as a close associate of Osama bin Laden.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/khadr/alqaedafamily2.html
Thanks for teh ping, Cindy.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/05/gitmo-detainee-who-killed-us-medic-denied-clemency.html
“Gitmo detainee who killed U.S. medic denied clemency”
(SNIPPET: “The cocky murderer and war criminal, Omar Khadr, got off with a shockingly light sentence as it was. And the denial of clemency keeps him from going back to the rest of his family of jihad sympathizers and supporters — in Toronto — any sooner. “U.S. military tribunal rebuffs Khadr’s bid for clemency,” by Steven Edwards for PostMedia News, May 26 (thanks to Ima Freeman):
NEW YORK — The U.S. military tribunal that oversaw Omar Khadr’s war crimes case has refused the Canadian’s bid for clemency with a statement Thursday that simply confirms the eight-year sentence he received in a plea deal.
The Toronto native had, through his military lawyer, sought to have the sentence reduced, arguing in part that the prosecution had been guilty of “misconduct” in its calling of a key prosecution witness.
The confirmation of the eight-year sentence — in exchange for which Khadr admitted to five war crimes, including the murder of a U.S. serviceman — was issued by retired Vice-Admiral Bruce MacDonald, who serves as the tribunal “convening authority,” or overseer.
Khadr killed a Special Forces medic with a grenade.”
ping: “Gitmo detainee who killed U.S. medic denied clemency”
Thank you for your ping Gene Eric.
No problem, Cindy. There seemed to be quite a list of interested pingees. BTW, thank you for your relentless diligence!
You’re very welcome.
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Thanks Gene Eric.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/265
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/3415/khadr-going-free-and-public
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Khadr Going Free, and Public”
by IPT News • Jan 30, 2012 at 1:36 pm
SNIPPET: “Canadian terrorist Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pled guilty to a litany of al-Qaida terrorism charges in October 2010, soon will be released to Canada. As the Toronto Sun’s Ezra Levant puts it in his new book, The Enemy Within, Khadr’s reception by Canadian liberals will cover up his crimes and salute him as the victim of American abuses.
Khadr was captured in Afghanistan in July 2002, after throwing grenades at American soldiers, and was discovered with video of his helping to build and places anti-vehicle mines for Afghan resistance fighters. Khadr, who was 15 at the time of his arrest, spent the next eight years in Guantanamo interrogations, awaiting his American trial.”
SNIPPET: “As Levant points out, Khadr’s superstar status among Canadian left-wing intellectuals means that he will likely be asked to address some of Canada’s most anti-American and anti-Semitic student audiences. Despite his crimes, Canada’s government is essentially giving him a “Get-out-of-jail-free card,” and a podium to boot.”
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