GUANTANAMO BAY — Since I’m at a Naval base, it bears calling attention during a break in the Khadr hearing to a speech Defense Secretary Gates gave this afternoon about the future of U.S. seapower. It’s a cri de coeur for the Navy and the Marine Corps to confront “hard More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Mr. M, a former Army National Guard medic at Bagram from August 2002 to spring 2003, testified that he “never saw any fresh wounds” on Omar Khadr commensurate with any of the abuse in Khadr’s affidavit. No being used as a human mop or anything like that, More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — After two straight days of absence and a very strange half-day appearance on Thursday, the Office of Military Commissions just confirmed that Omar Khadr will return to court today for his pre-trial hearing.
Testimony on Saturday indicated that Khadr was healthy enough to play basketball just More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — The pre-trial hearing for a 23-year old Canadian citizen tried before a military commission is likely to host some of the most dramatic testimony of the post-9/11 era this week. That is, if More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — A youthful-looking woman in a gray suit with long brown hair is known only to us as Interrogator Number 11. She was a military interrogator at Guantanamo Bay who interrogated the detainee she refers to as “Omar” from October 28, 2002 until November 14, 2002. The timeline More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Sometime during this hearing, Omar Khadr’s lawyers intend to call as a witness someone identified only as “Interrogator #1.” Interrogator #1, his lawyers told Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge here, will testify to personally threatening Khadr with rape during Khadr’s detention at Bagram Air Field in More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Col. Patrick Parrish, the judge presiding over Omar Khadr’s military commission, gaveled the third day of the proceedings into session. For the second morning in a row, Khadr is not in the room.
Khadr received medical treatment yesterday for what a retired Army medical corps general More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Navy Commander Brad Fagan, a spokesman for the military command running the detention facility here, told reporters that Omar Khadr “is being looked at right now by a doctor.” Khadr is experiencing an “urgent” medical condition, according to Dr. Stephen Xenakis, who briefly checked him out More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — The prosecution in Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing screened what may be its trump card when the actual trial portion of the military commission gets underway in July: a 25-minute video captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan showing a 15-year old Omar Khadr in a compound with people More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Crisis averted. With his right hand shielding his eyes and dabbing at his eyes with a tissue, Omar Khadr returned to court for his pre-trial hearing. Joe DellaVedova, a spokesman for the military commissions, confirmed there was no forced cell extraction. Khadr appeared voluntarily.
That doesn’t More…
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