TorontoSun.com - Mark Bonokoski - Waste no tears on Khadr

TorontoSun.com - Mark Bonokoski - Waste no tears on Khadr

The best that can be said about Omar Khadr is that he is not a terrorist or an "unlawful combatant" but a prisoner of war. That he was only 15 years old when captured is true enough but according to Sharia Law a boy becomes a man at 13 years of age. Why not take Islamists at their word?
The Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners of war is that they should be housed and fed at the same standard as the host countries soldiers and may be held until the end of hostilities. He would be subject to the military discipline of being "confined to barracks." Since the "War on Terror" will continue indefinitely young Omar Khadr may well be a geriatric case when and if he is released.
Even if he is convicted by the military tribunal of a war crime, the murder of Sgt. Christopher Speers, it is unlikely that the death penalty would be imposed but more probably life imprisonment. I say spare the American taxpayers the expense of a trial and keep him in a P.O.W. camp until al-Qaida and Islamo-Fascism are defeated.