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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — During a pretrial hearing here Thursday, military prosecutors played a 25-minute video that showed Canadian detainee Omar Khadr building roadside bombs in Afghanistan with several reputed al-Qaeda operatives.
“Allah willing, we will get a good number of Americans,” said a voice on the tape, which U.S. forces seized from the compound where Khadr was captured in July 2002.
For the government, the video is a key piece of evidence that shows Khadr conspiring to kill U.S. service members. But the defense views it as illustrating Khadr’s youth and that he was in thrall to a group of adults. He was 15 when he was captured.
