Pentagon Notifies Congress of Intent to Transfer Omar Khadr

The transfer [of the two Uighurs] leaves 169 detainees at the prison in Cuba, but the Obama administration notified Congress several days ago that it intended to repatriate one of them, Omar Khadr, a Canadian detainee who pleaded guilty in 2010 to war crimes, according to an American official familiar with the matter. Mr. Khadr’s plea deal had suggested he would be transferred to Canada late last year to serve out his sentence — and possibly be paroled — but his request faced bureaucratic delays on both sides of the border. A Canadian government official said this week, however, that the United States had formally asked it to take Mr. Khadr back and that all that remained to be worked out was the timing.