Guantánamo video shows interrogation of sobbing Canadian youthI'm going to be really honest, I don't quite understand how a kid who allegedly (he hasn't had a trial yet) threw a grenade at a soldier ends up in Guantanamo Bay for 6 years. I mean, does it normally take 6 years before a trial is available? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm being serious. I guess this kid was the son of a friend of some high ranking officials in Al'Queda
(lol got it?) and was found in Afghanistan. I have no doubt he was probably participating in the insurgency and if he was an adult I probably wouldn't be too upset by this. But a 16 year old sobbing to go home is just a bit much and if he's a Canadian citizen I'm suprised that the Canadian government didn't detain him in one of their prisons.
With that being said, when my cousin was in Iraq one of the things he saw was a child lob a grenade into an open hummer that some of his soldiers were driving. The soldier just thought the kid was waving at first and then when he saw the kid throw it he just figured it was a rock (who expects a child to throw a friggin grenade??). His fast thinking buddy next to him grabbed a sandbag and blocked most of the force but his arm did get blown off. By a kid. Throwing a grenade.
But it's war, I guess. *sigh*
What are your thoughts on this?