Tomorrow on newsstands, we tell the story of Omar Khadr, who
is the youngest detainee at Guantanamo, the only Westerner, and a symbol of sorts. To some, he is exhibit A for all that is wrong with America's War on Terror. For others, he's an example of why the camp exists in the first place. For us, he's representative of the biggest problem President Obama faces in closing the detention facility within a year: what to do with those detainees left at the camp who have indisputable terrorist ties.
As President Obama tries to keep his pledge to close Gitmo by next January, his biggest challenge -- as told in-depth in your New Times this very week -- is figuring out what to do with guys like Omar Khadr. Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsKhadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay and the only Westerner, is both a symbol of the War on Terror's most egregious failures (he was captured at age 15 and probably tortured in Bagram and Gitmo) and its most lasting problems (if he wasn't already radical,
