I'm sitting on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. A USAF KC-130 is being loaded with gear in front of me and once that's done, I'll be strapping myself in one of the seats for the flight to the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
I'm travelling with a small group of Canadian journalists to watch a military commission hearing tomorrow involving Omar Khadr, the Toronto-born man charged by the U.S. government with murder and various war crimes stemming from his involvement in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002.
We will be 3 hours, we are told, in the air. We're dressed for 84 F weather in Cuba but we expect it to be a bit chilly in the aircraft.