Plea Deal For Guantanamo's Youngest Detainee?

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, Canadian defendant Omar Khadr attends a hearing in the courthouse for the U.S. military war crimes commission at the Camp Justice compound on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, April 28, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Janet Hamlin/Pool/Files

Khadr's Guantanamo Trial Postponed While Lawyers Work On Plea Deal -- McClatchy News

A military judge Thursday postponed the Guantánamo war crimes trial of Omar Khadr, the Canadian captured in Afghanistan at age 15, buying time for his lawyers to negotiate a plea deal and avert the so-called "child-soldier" terror trial.

Toronto-born Khadr, 24, faces a maximum life in prison if he's convicted at a military commission of throwing a grenade that mortally wounded a U.S. soldier in 2002 wartime Afghanistan.

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More News On Omar Khadr

Trial of Youngest Guantanamo Defendant Delayed, Compromise Deal Sought -- Voice of America
U.S., Canadian lawyers working on deal for youngest detainee -- Washington Post
Judge Delays Resumption of Guantánamo Trial -- New York Times
Gitmo Defendant in Plea Talks -- Wall Street Journal
Through bullets and grenades: The U.S. account of the Khadr encounter -- National Post
A U.S. request Harper would dread -- Globe And Mail opinion
Exclusive — Khadr’s father tried to kill me: aid worker -- National Post

My Comment: I expect an agreement to be reached in which he admits to killing a US medic, whereby he will then be given a sentence, followed with repatriation to Canada to serve his time. After a short period of time, he will then be released.

Is this justice .... probably not, and definitely not for the family of the medic that he murdered.