60 Minutes footage Outrages Khadr's lawyer

by Rob Walker | November 19, 2007 at 02:04 pm

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This Canadian citizen has been in Guantanamo bay since he was 15-years-old. I didn't see the video in question, but if the US military leaked the video and 60 minutes played it to circumvent a court order, they should be sued or charged.

Omar Khadr's Canadian lawyer has blasted CBS News for airing never-before-seen tape that supposedly shows the 21-year-old constructing explosives, saying the footage from a 60 Minutes special subtitled "The Youngest Terrorist?" violated a court ban.

Dennis Edney, a lawyer for the Toronto-born detainee, said a U.S. judge had already ruled the video could not be admissible as evidence for Khadr's terrorism trial at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay.

On Sunday evening, however, the CBS current affairs program aired a feature on Khadr, using video images that 60 Minutes said "appears to be Omar Khadr helping put together a firing device."

CBS still has an entire feature section on him.

[q
url="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/16/60minutes/main3516048.shtml?source=mostpop_story"]Omar
Khadr seems an unlikely poster boy for the war on terror. Khadr is a
Canadian citizen, he likes Harry Potter, and he was only 15 years old
when he was captured by the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. And that's what
makes his case so controversial: his age.

As correspondent Bob Simon reports, Omar Khadr is the only person in
modern history to be charged for war crimes he allegedly committed
while a minor.

60 Minutes got a rare glimpse into a Guantanamo case -- one of the
first that will be prosecuted. Consider this: is Omar Khadr a hardened
terrorist -- a bad seed, or an obedient son, led astray by his family?
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