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05/27/11 OTTAWA -- Convicted terrorist Omar Khadr won't get any time shaved off his eight-year prison term after the convening authority for military commissions on Thursday denied a request to cut his sentence in half.[...]
05/23/11 Convicted terrorist Omar Khadr will know in two weeks whether he will get his eight-year prison term cut in half, his lead U.S. lawyer says.
05/11/11 Military prosecutors in the Omar Khadr case accuse his defence of attempting to "rewrite history" as the Toronto native's attorneys seek clemency for him, a prosecution memorandum obtained by Postmedia News shows.
04/19/11 Lawyers for Omar Khadr, the Canadian-born former teenage al-Qaeda fighter imprisoned at Guantanamo, are seeking clemency for him.
11/04/10 A Pinehurst mother has finally confronted the man who murdered her Green Beret husband in 2002. Tabitha Speer looked at Omar Khadr from the witness stand last week as the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal considered his sentence.
11/01/10 Omar Khadr was sentenced to 40 years in custody for war crimes, but he might be released in fewer than three years, the Defense Department said.
10/31/10 Canadian captive Omar Khadr was sentenced on Sunday to 40 years in prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba but a plea deal means he will serve only eight years in addition to the eight years he has been held.
10/31/10 Omar Khadr could learn as early as Saturday how long a military jury believes he should stay behind bars.
10/30/10 The sentencing jury in the case of Omar Khadr retired for the evening Saturday after hearing starkly differing views of the convicted Canadian war criminal and what punishment he should face.
10/28/10 Omar Khadr took the stand Thursday afternoon to tell the widow of a soldier he admitted to killing that he was "really, really sorry for the pain I caused you and your family."
10/27/10 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Confessed teen terrorist Omar Khadr is a dangerous threat to the West, a "rock star" who has "been marinating in a radical Islamic community" inside Guant?namo's showcase camp for cooperative captives, a forensic psychiatrist hired by the Pentagon told a military jury Tuesday.
10/27/10 Details of Omar Khadr's war crimes were revealed here Tuesday as his sentencing hearing began.[...]
10/26/10 The pictures emerged as it was revealed that Omar Khadr, who was held at the age of 15, had pleaded guilty to killing a US soldier.
10/26/10 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- A Canadian accused of killing a US soldier as a teenage al Qaeda militant pleaded guilty yesterday in a deal that avoids a war-crimes trial for someone labeled a "child soldier" by his defenders. Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to five charges, including murder, for...
10/26/10 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- A Canadian accused of killing a US soldier as a teenage al Qaeda militant pleaded guilty yesterday in a deal that avoids a war-crimes trial for someone labeled a "child soldier" by his defenders. Omar Khadr pleade...
10/26/10 Prosecutors showed jurors a videotaped FBI pyrotechnics display of a Humvee being blown up by an anti-tank mine on Tuesday in a bid to demonstrate the lethality of Canadian teen terrorist Omar Khadr in 2002 Afghanistan .
10/26/10 Omar Khadr felt "happy" after he threw the grenade that killed a U.S. Army medic, according to details of Khadr's plea deal read out in court Tuesday.
10/26/10 Omar Khadr threw a grenade with the intent of killing as many Americans as he could and told interrogators he felt happy that he had killed a U.S. soldier, according to an agreed statement of facts.
10/26/10 Omar Khadr's jury in Guantanamo listened to the teen's sentencing testimony this week. Prosecutors showed jurors a videotaped FBI pyrotechnics display of a Humvee being blown up by an anti-tank mine on Tuesday in a bid to demonstrate the lethality of Canadian teen terrorist Omar Khadr in 2002 Afghanistan. Khadr was 15. Defense lawyers seeking leniency for th
10/26/10 Omar Khadr is an admitted murderer and al-Qaida terrorist who manufactured and planted roadside bombs in Afghanistan. And Khadr very likely will be returning to Canada in a year to serve out most of his still-secret sentence.[...]
10/26/10 Omar Khadr is an angry and "highly dangerous" terrorist who shows no remorse for the killing of a U.S. soldier and other crimes, a psychiatrist speaking on behalf of prosecutors told a Guantanamo Bay court Tuesday. | 
