Factbox: Guantanamo's youngest prisoner rejects deal

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Canadian captive Omar Khadr said Monday he had turned down a plea bargain that would have freed him in five years, and wants to act as his own attorney during his trial at the war crimes court at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Here are facts about Khadr and the charges against him.

* Omar Ahmed Khadr was born in Toronto on September 19, 1986, and is the last citizen of a Western nation among the 181 foreign captives held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo.

* Khadr was 15 when he was gravely wounded and captured during a firefight at a suspected al Qaeda compound near the Afghan city of Khost in July 2002. His trial is scheduled for August and his would be the first war crimes tribunal since World War Two to prosecute someone for acts allegedly committed as a child. Now 23, Khadr has spent more than a third of his life locked up with adult prisoners at Guantanamo.

* Khadr is accused of murdering U.S. Army Sergeant 1st Class Christopher Speer with a hand grenade during the battle in Afghanistan and making roadside bombs for use against U.S. forces. He is charged with murder, attempted murder, conspiring with al Qaeda, providing material support for terrorism and spying on U.S. forces, and could face life in prison if convicted.

* His lawyers have asked a military judge to throw out all evidence based on statements Khadr gave during interrogations, contending they were coerced through torture and cruelty. A U.S. interrogator acknowledged trying to scare him with tales of rape and death, while others said he was hooded and chained to a wall at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. Canada's Supreme Court ruled his rights were violated when Canadian agents questioned him at Guantanamo, then shared their findings with the United States.

* Khadr is the son of Ahmed Said Khadr, an alleged al Qaeda financier and confidant of Osama bin Laden who was killed in a shootout with Pakistani security forces in 2003. The U.S. military says the elder Khadr sent Omar and his other sons to al Qaeda training camps to learn how to use guns, grenades and other explosives.

(Reporting by Jane Sutton at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba; editing by Paul Simao)