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Guantanamo's youngest prisoner
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5-5-2008 7:29 PM
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Only 15 when captured, now 21. Judge dismisses argument that he was a child soldier
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5-6-2008
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Kauaiguy
The Pentagon trying people for war crimes?.. Quite a joke, I'd say.
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