Khadr Release Puts New Spotlight on Gitmo

Canada's release of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr has brought the controversial detention center at the U.S. Naval base in Cuba back into the spotlight. Omar Khadr is the youngest person ever to be held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. He was freed Thursday for the first time since 2002, when he was 15 years old and threw a grenade at U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, killing U.S. Sergeant Christopher Speer. A Canadian judge freed Khadr, saying that his case is “to...

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