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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Lawyers for a former teenage al-Qaeda fighter imprisoned at Guantanamo are seeking clemency for him, arguing that his sentencing at his military tribunal was tainted by improper witness testimony and prosecution maneuvers.
Omar Khadr’s lawyers have asked the military’s Convening Authority, the Pentagon official who oversees the tribunals at the U.S. base in Cuba, to cut his sentence in half to four years on charges that included murder for throwing a grenade that mortally wounded an American soldier in Afghanistan.
The Canadian-born Khadr was 15 when captured in 2002.
