The US Army extended detention of Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay prison in part because young Canadians have continued "provide valuable information"in the course of questioning, reveals a secret document of 2004.""
Khadr spitting details on training camps alleged al-Qaeda, "key" al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and "non-governmental organizations that he had worked with in support of al-Qaeda", explains the file.
"Inmate has been generally cooperative and forthcoming," reads the note, addressed to the head of Southern Command of the U.S. Army, which includes the naval base and prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The document was obtained by the whistleblower WikiLeaks website and released Sunday evening. It lists the Department of us defense "reasons for continued detention" Khadr, who was caught in Afghanistan in 2002 to 15 years, following an exchange of fire with us special forces.
Khadr pleaded guilty in October last to launch a grenade that killed a nurse U.S. during the melee and four other charges, including providing material support to terrorists.
One of the reasons why the memo of the cites for keeping him in the prison at Guantanamo Bay is that it "never expressed any genuine remorse for the murder of this soldier." United States said throughout that he had confessed the murder at the beginning of his detention, but Khadr defence counsel maintains that any confession was extracted, as admissions of some other prisoners under torture.
The vast majority of the captives over 700 who have spent time at Guantanamo Bay since 2001 have been released without charge, sometimes to the custody of their country of origin.
Khadr is one of the detainees at Guantanamo remaining 172 and last West citizen it. He will be eligible for the fall for the transfer of a Canadian penitentiary to serve the remaining seven years of his sentence.
Its advocates have decried his continued detention, noting that international law requires child soldiers to be treated not as a hardened militants, but as victims in need of rehabilitation.
WikiLeaks began the release of 779 secret files in the Guantanamo Bay camp Sunday night. Until now, most of the documents are prisoner assessments, but a discloses that spy on the Canada service has been duped by a double agent for al-Qaeda.
The leak follows release year last by the Web site of hundreds of thousands of classified documents of the American invasion of the Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and American diplomatic cables.
The files disclosed Sunday also revealed that another detainee at Guantanamo Bay was a journalist for Al-Jazeera, which has been maintained for six years, in part to be questioned about the new Mideast network.
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