Military commissions in Guantanamo begin under new rules
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A hearing opens this week at Guantanamo Bay for a detainee named Omar Khadr. Khadr was taken into US custody in Afghanistan in 2002 at the age of 15. The hearing will be the first under new rules governing the military commissions that congress passed in late 2009 - and observers are watching the process to see how the changes will be implemented. Advocates point to violations in the rules of war governing children and Khadr's status as a minor when taken into US custody.
To discuss the case, we're joined by Jonathan Hafetz. He's an attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project.
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