Meanwhile in Canada, the family of Omar Khadr said they were overjoyed after learning that charges were dropped against him. Omar Khadr has been held at Guantanamo since he was 15 years old. He was first detained in Afghanistan.

Zaynab Khadr, sister of Omar Khadr: “I think they’re going to find another way to recharge him, but at least they found the loop — a hole in the loop, and they’re trying something else. We’re moving on, maybe not the way we’d like it to move or not as fast as we’d like it to move, but it’s moving.”

Reporters asked Omar Khadr’s sister about how her brother is doing.

Zaynab Khadr: “His letters seem to portray him — he’s doing OK, a lot more mature than he used to be. I mean, he was 15! He’s telling us to be strong, and he’s telling us to hang in there, and he’s telling us to have faith. Physically, going to the lawyer and a lot of people who are seeing him as that, well, it’s having its toll on him. I mean, who wouldn’t it have its toll on? He was almost dead when they took him, and it has a heavy toll on a completely perfectly healthy man, and he was a child, so…”