Omar Khadr leaves Guantánamo to return to Canada
Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan. The last western detainee held at the Guantánamo Bay US military prison has returned to Canada after a decade in custody and has been transferred to a maximum security prison in Canada where he awaits parole, Canada's public safety minister said Saturday. Vic Toews said that 26-year-old Omar Khadr arrived at a Canadian military base on a US government plane early Saturday and was transferred to the Millhaven maximum security prison in Bath, Ontario. Khadr pleaded guilty in 2010 to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan and was eligible to return to Canada from Guantánamo last October under terms of a plea deal. Khadr was 15 when he was captured in 2002 in Afghanistan, and has spent a decade at the Guantánamo prison in Cuba – which was set up after 9/11 to hold suspected terrorists. Khadr received an eight-year sentence in 2010 after being convicted of throwing a grenade that killed army sargeant first class Chris