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pics and story here http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/662769 And more ... Legal bill to battle Khadr $1.3 million and counting NDP critic says Ottawa is 'in denial' as costs and court defeats pile up Allan Woods in Ottawa Michelle Shephard in Toronto Published On Fri Oct 30 2009 An exclusive photo, right, taken at Guantanamo prison shows what Omar Khadr looks like today (October, 2009), seven years after his capture at 15, left. Taxpayers are on the hook for more than $1.3 million in legal fees incurred by the federal government in its legal battle against Toronto-born Omar Khadr. Documents show Ottawa has spent $1,335,342.37 fighting the alleged Al Qaeda child soldier over the past seven years, and there are more legal costs ahead. Khadr was captured after a firefight with U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2002 and has been detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre for the last seven years. His Canadian lawyers have won a handful of legal challenges against the government, including a Federal Appeals Court ruling earlier this year that ordered Prime Minister Stephen Harper to intervene. The costs of the government's appeals were contained in a written response released this week to a question posed by the New Democratic Party in the House of Commons in June. Harper's stubborn streak is costing us a bundle!

Some new information on this case ... Omar Khadr 'innocent' in death of U.S. soldier October 29, 2009 Torstar News Service http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/662769 Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was buried face down under rubble, blinded by shrapnel and crippled, at the time the Pentagon alleges he threw a grenade that fatally wounded a U.S. soldier, according to classified photographs and defence documents obtained by the Star. The pictures, which were taken following a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan and have never been made public, show the then 15-year-old Canadian covered in bricks and mud from the roof of a bombed compound. The body of an adult fighter – the unnamed man Khadr's lawyers contend could have thrown the grenade that killed U.S. Sgt. Christopher Speer – lies beside him. The photographs were part of an 18-page submission presented earlier this year by Khadr's former military defence team to an Obama administration task force investigating Guantanamo. While the defence's argument that it was physically impossible for Khadr to have thrown the grenade first surfaced at a Guantanamo hearing last year, the military judge would not release the photos or declassify the written submissions.