Omar Khadr, Oh Canada

by Janice Williamson

In 2002 a fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier. A badly wounded Omar Khadr was transferred to the US Bagram Air Force base and then Guant namo Bay detention camp. He would remain there without trial until October 2010, when a military commission admitted evidence considered tainted by Canadian courts. A plea bargain and guilty plea initiated his promised return to Canada a year later...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773540229
• ISBN13: 9780773540224
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"