TORONTO – Lawyers for former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr are in court in Toronto today arguing to expand his civil lawsuit against Ottawa.
They want to amend his suit to include a claim that Canada wrongly conspired with the Americans against the detainee.
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Khadr was under U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay a decade ago and Canadian authorities wanted access to him.
Court heard RCMP at the time were considering charging him with a terrorist offence.
Documents show the Americans only agreed to allow access to the teen if the Canadians shared information they got from him with them.
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Khadr, who is now serving his sentence in Edmonton, says he pleaded guilty to five war crimes before a U.S. military commission three years ago as the only way to get out of Guantanamo Bay.
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