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Dennis Edney: Omar Khadr

Omar Khadr: Dennis Edney says Khadr is to be moved to the Bowden Institution near the town of Innisfail, but it is not clear when. , according to Hamilton Spectator. The 27-year-old is being held at the federal maximum-security prison in Edmonton where he is serving the remainder of an eight-year sentence. EDMONTON The lawyer for former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr says his client is to be transferred to a federal medium-security prison in central Alberta. Khadr pleaded guilty in 2010 to five war crimes, including murder, for killing an American soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.