http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr
Omar Ahmed Khadr (born September 19, 1986) is a Canadian citizen who was one of the youngest captives and the last Western citizen to be held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Captured at the age of 15 years and 10 months on July 27, 2002 by American forces in the village of Ayub Kheyl, Afghanistan,[1] he was detained, interrogated and sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. He was accused of killing a U.S. soldier by throwing a hand grenade and planting mines to target U.S. convoys.[2] In October 2010, he pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to the charges of war crimes, including murder in violation of the law of war and providing material support for terrorism.[3] Khadr was to be tried by a Guantanamo military commission tribunal, a venue reserved for non-American enemy combatants,[4][5][6] but this was averted by the plea agreement signed by Khadr after 10 years detention without charge.[7][8][9]
He accepted an 8-year sentence, not including time served, with the possibility of a transfer to Canada after at least one year to serve the remainder of the sentence there, based on a diplomatic (United States/Canada) agreement.[10]
Khadr was the first person since World War II to be prosecuted in a military commission for war crimes committed while still a minor. His conviction and sentence were widely denounced by civil rights groups and various newspaper editorials.[11] He has been frequently referred to as a child soldier.[12][13] He was formally identified as such by the head of the United Nations child soldier program in a letter to the Military Commission in October 2010.[14][15] The last Western citizen held at Guantanamo, Khadr was unique in that Canada had chosen not to seek extradition or repatriation despite the urgings of Amnesty International, UNICEF, the Canadian Bar Association and other prominent organizations.[16][17][18][19]
In a post-interrogation report, Canadian intelligence authorities had initially determined that Khadr had little knowledge of his father's alleged activities, since "he was out playing or simply not interested".[20] The stipulation of facts document,[21] which Khadr signed as part of his plea-agreement with the prosecution held that Khadr had "extensive firsthand knowledge" of his father's supportive role in al- Qaeda operations.[22] On September 29, 2012 Khadr was repatriated to Canada. He will serve the remainder of his sentence in Canadian custody.[23] Under Canadian law he was eligible for parole in mid-2013.[24]
In 2013 as part of an ongoing 20 million Dollar civil suit against Canada, Khadr said: "I have no memory at all of that day or anything at all about a grenade being thrown at any U.S. soldiers," that the plea agreement was "constructed by the U.S. government in its entirety," and that he had signed it only to escape the "continued abuse and torture" at Guantanamo Bay.[25][26]
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