My friend Muna Shikaki of al-Arabiya tweet-reports: A plea deal has been reached in the case of the accused war criminal Omar Khadr in Guantanamo that will assure the US government a conviction will ensure Khadr return to Canada to serve the majority of his sentence “soon” sources close to the trial tell Al-Arabiya. Last [...]

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 [...]

Just as soon as Omar Khadr’s trial began, it’s stopped; Khadr’s lawyer, Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, collapsed in the courthouse late yesterday. Doctors suspect it is related to a surgery Jackson had six weeks earlier, but nonetheless the judge ordered a thirty-day recess. This is, of couse, on top of the several years’ delay Khadr [...]

For those of you familiar with Spencer’s extensive reporting on Guantanamo and the trial of Omar Khadr–and that should be all of you–today’s breaking news is that his trial has now begun, becoming the first revised military tribunal trial under the Obama Administration. There are many issues that will come up in this case, not [...]

My friend Michelle Shephard of the Toronto Star is still banned from Guantanamo unreasonably. Yet she still beats the rest of the Guantanamo press corps by reporting that once again, Omar Khadr has fired his lawyers. According to her piece — and she wrote the book on Khadr — it’s a sign of his resignation [...]

GUANTANAMO BAY — A young-looking woman with a very pleasing demeanor is testifying about the rapport she built with “Omar,” never using his last name, vindicating her superiors’ decisions to assign her to Khadr because she would be “more of a mother figure for him, and he could relate to me.” She is a former [...]