The Canadian-born Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr has rejected a US plea deal that would have allowed him to return to Canada in five years if he admitted to committing war crimes in Afghanistan. In a handwritten statement, Khadr said he would not take a plea deal because “it will give excuse for the government for torturing and abusing me when I was a child.” Khadr was fifteen years old when US troops imprisoned him in 2002. Khadr has also fired his legal team and threatened to boycott his August 10 trial.