Guantanamo tribunal told to call prisoner with respect

Toronto-born Omar Khadr, who is accused of killing a US Army medic in Afghanistan when he was still 15, is one of two Guantanamo prisoners attending pre-trial hearings before a military tribunal this week at the remote, and controversial, Guantanamo base in Cuba.

The Pentagon went ahead with the hearings even though courts have halted the trials of other Guantanamo detainees pending a US Supreme Court ruling on whether President George W. Bush had authority to establish the tribunals to try foreign terrorism suspects after the September 11 attacks. The court will hear arguments in the case in March.