Guantanamo 'child soldier' gets 8 years
A former teenage al-Qaida fighter was sentenced to eight more years in custody yesterday under the terms of a plea deal revealed after a military sentencing jury said he should serve 40 years for war crimes.
Omar Khadr looked straight ahead as he was sentenced by a military judge at Guantanamo Bay. The 24-year-old Canadian had pleaded guilty to five war crimes including murder.