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Canadian judge to decide if ex-Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr gets bail

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EDMONTON, Alberta – A Canadian judge is deciding whether a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who pleaded guilty to killing a U.S. soldier should get bail.

A two-day hearing has concluded for Omar Khadr and the judge will announce her decision at a later date.

The Toronto-born son of an alleged al-Qaida financier, Khadr pleaded guilty in 2010 to five war-crimes charges, including murder, for killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan when Khadr was 15.

Now 28, he is more than halfway through an eight-year sentence and is a prisoner at Bowden Institution in central Alberta.

Khadr's lawyers say he should be released while he appeals his war-crimes conviction before a U.S. military court. Canadian government lawyers argue that letting Khadr out would undermine public confidence and damage Canada's relationship with the U.S.