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| Canadian Khadr not to be tried in NY court |
| 2009-11-14 |
| The youngest Guantanamo detainee, a Canadian held for allegedly killing a US soldier in Afghanistan, is not going to stand trial at a civil court in the United States, says the attorney general. Reacting to the rumors on Friday about the possible appearance of the Canadian inmate in a US federal court Eric Holder said that the justice system was going to examine the matter, but for the time being, he added, Khadr would be facing a military tribunal. "We'll look at that matter. At this point it's one of the cases designated for commission proceeding. We will as that case proceeds see how it should be ultimately treated," AFP quoted Holder as saying. He was referring to the military commissions set up to try "war on terror" suspects at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Earlier on Friday the US attorney general had announced that the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the US would appear before a New York civil court along with his four other cohorts. Khadr's case has so far brought up at two separate military commissions. The military judges allege that he has killed a US soldier by hurling a grenade. Khadr has been held at Guantanamo since October 2002, when he was only fifteen years old. |
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