GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, May 8 (UPI) -- A military judge in the trial of a Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has ordered officials to release details of his treatment at the prison camp.
The judge Thursday threatened to suspend the trial unless officials provided an account of Omar Khadr's treatment during five years in captivity, the Miami Herald reported. Khadr was captured in July 2002 and was accused of using a grenade to kill a U.S. soldier during a firefight between U.S. forces and suspected al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan.
Khadr's defense attorney, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, had requested the information in an effort to show that the nature of some interrogations of Khadr might be reason to keep his statement during those interrogations out of evidence in his trial, the newspaper said.
The judge, Army Col. Peter E. Brownback III, sided with the defense Thursday, ruling that it should get copies of log entries from the prison camp's Detainee Information Management System.
''I find that this is relevant because it shows the day-by-day, hour-by-hour track of Mr. Khadr throughout his detention here at Guantánamo Bay,'' Brownback said.
