http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/04/25/canadian-omar-khadr-charged-with-war-crimes-at-gitmo/ The official Web log of Great Decisions 2007 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:03:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/04/25/canadian-omar-khadr-charged-with-war-crimes-at-gitmo/#comment-279 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:16:05 +0000 http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/04/25/canadian-omar-khadr-charged-with-war-crimes-at-gitmo/#comment-279 [...] The “high-value” suspects were declared enemy combatants by their Combatant Status Review Tribunals, a judicial process determining eligibility of Guantanamo detainees to face prosecution for war crimes before a military commission.  The declaration, however, has proven contentious in the past.  A case against Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was accused of the murder of a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, was thrown out of the commission because he had been designated an “enemy combatant.”, not an “unlawful enemy combatant.”  Though largely semantic, the legislation defining the military commissions states that only those classified as “unlawful enemy combatants” may face prosecution for war crimes. [...] […] The “high-value” suspects were declared enemy combatants by their Combatant Status Review Tribunals, a judicial process determining eligibility of Guantanamo detainees to face prosecution for war crimes before a military commission.  The declaration, however, has proven contentious in the past.  A case against Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen who was accused of the murder of a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, was thrown out of the commission because he had been designated an “enemy combatant.”, not an “unlawful enemy combatant.”  Though largely semantic, the legislation defining the military commissions states that only those classified as “unlawful enemy combatants” may face prosecution for war crimes. […]

]]>