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Last westerner at Guantanamo asks for transfer to Canada

At age 15, Canadian-born Omar Khadr killed a US soldier in Afghanistan in 2002.

Omar Khadr, Guantanamo detainee, heads back to Canada

Omar Khadr is the last Western prisoner to be returned to his native country from Cuba.

In this Pentagon-approved photograph of a sketch by Janet Hamlin, Omar Khadr addresses USAF Capt. Michael Grant on Oct. 25, 2010, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Khadr filed a request on April 18, 2012, to serve his sentence in a Canadian jail.

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