Judge heeds Obama request to suspend Gitmo trial

A military judge Wednesday ordered the suspension of the trial of a Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay, in what could be the first step toward closing the controversial prison.
The judge agreed to a request by President Barack Obama to suspend, for 120 days, the trial of Omar Khadr for allegedly killing a US soldier in Afghanistan.
Khadr was arrested at the age of 15 and transferred to the US war-on-terror prison camp on Cuba's parched southeast coast.
Late Tuesday, Obama made a swift break with the previous administration and ordered prosecutors to seek a suspension of military trials at the Guantanamo "war on terror" prison camp.
"In the interests of justice, and at the direction of the president of the United States and the secretary of defense, the government respectfully requests the military commission grant a continuance of the proceedings," said prosecution documents.
On Wednesday Judge Patrick Parrish, who is overseeing the case of Khadr, agreed.
"The defense did not oppose the motion and the judge has granted the motion," spokesman Jo Dellavedova told reporters.