The actual military commission of Omar Khadr — who, at 15 years old in 2002, allegedly threw a grenade that killed an Army Special Forces sergeant during the storming of a Khost Province terrorist compound in which he stayed — will begin on October 18 at Guantanamo. While I was in Afghanistan, the military judge in Khadr’s case, Colonel Patrick Parrish, ruled that much of the evidence against Khadr taken from his interrogations can be used against him at trial. Those statements came after one of his interrogators, Joshua Claus, told Khadr a grotesque parable about an uncooperative young detainee being raped to death. How any of this squares with the Military Commissions Act of 2009′s stated protections against the admissibility of statements delivered under coercive environments is beyond me.