Khadr pleads guilty on all five counts

Omar Khadr had said he would never admit to killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan.

At the resumption of his trial in Guantanamo Bay today, the 24-year-old Toronto-born man pled guilty on all five counts of war crimes he faced, including murder and supporting terrorism. The terms of the plea deal he arranged with U.S. prosecutors is not yet clear, but it was widely reported last week that the deal would see him serve eight years in prison, seven of which he would spend in Canada. Khadr’s case has been extremely controversial. He was only 16 when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 and is the first person to be tried for war crimes committed as a minor in sixty years. He has been in prison since 2002, despite never being convicted of a crime until today.