10.5 million dollar compensation offer too Omar Khadr
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Sideburns moustache and beard on a pre-pubescent child .
Because it was in self defense.
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Here's a picture of Khadr baking bundt cakes in self defense.
Say what you will about the guy, but he did bake one delicious bundt cake
Posters who start new threads should take the time to at least make sure the title is grammatical! 
Brainwashed jihadists? No, they know exactly what they're doing | MALCOLM | Colu
Canada is a “filthy place” – this, according to a handwritten letter sent by a Canadian al-Qaeda agent to his family back in Canada.
Once a University of Manitoba engineering student, Maiwand Yar left in 2007 and mailed the letter from a terrorist outpost in Pakistan.
The letter recently became public, and is being used as evidence in the American trial of Yar’s friend and former classmate, Muhanad al-Farekh, who is facing terrorism charges after being captured in Pakistan.
In the letter, Yar urges his family to leave Canada and instructs them to stop watching Hollywood movies and North American news stations — “nothing but lies”— and to avoid Western fashion and Canadian public schools.
“Put all the kids in an Islamic school and make the kids wear (a) hijab from an early age,” he commands.
This letter offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a radicalized jihadist. In his own words, he explains exactly what he is doing and why.
The letter goes against everything Justin Trudeau and his friends want us to believe about Islamists, and debunks many of the prevailing myths pushed by those who sympathize and apologize for radical Islamists.
First, the letter provides a calm and clear explanation for why this young man left Canada to join a terrorist army. Yar insists he isn’t crazy or under any illusions when it comes to his hatred for Canada.
Far from the narrative that terrorists suffer from mental illness, Yar emphasizes that he’s made a choice, and he believes it’s the right one.
Second, Yar explicitly says he’s not brainwashed. “It hurts me so much that you believe I left because I was brainwashed and didn’t know what I was doing,” he writes. Yar instead accuses his family and the Muslim community in Canada of going astray and betraying his fundamentalist worldview.
Third, this terrorist is incredibly religious, and his letter is filed with references to Islamic scripture and scholars who promote violent jihad against non-Muslims.
It’s clear he’s a devout and fundamentalist Muslim, motivated by his faith. Anyone who still believes that Islamist terrorism has “nothing to do with Islam” should read this letter.
Forth, the letter is surprisingly articulate – revealing Yar as intelligent and well-educated. His beliefs are evil—based on 7th century morality and militant tribalism—but there is no doubt he possesses a thorough and well-researched ideology.
Finally, this letter debunks the prevailing myth that terrorists are driven by a lack of economic opportunity.
Graduating from a top Canadian university with an engineering degree could have landed Yar a high-paying job. He is smart, and could have had a very good life in Canada.
This terrorist didn’t reject Canada because he had no other options. He made a clear choice.
He believed he was fighting in a war of civilizations, and he was willing to die for his cause.
Jihadists repeatedly tell us, in cogent language, that they are fighting a war to destroy our civilization and to impose their Islamist ideology.
We can either choose to take terrorists at their word, and do something to stop the spread of Islamist jihad.
Or we can choose to believe Justin Trudeau – who sees terrorists as victims, deserving of a second chance. Trudeau said the Boston Marathon bombings only happened because someone “feels completely excluded.” He’s rewarded ex-terrorists – with cash and citizenship.
We can choose to be realistic or naive.
That’s our choice. The jihadists have made theirs.
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^^^^ I think this is one of ZulF family members !!
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Canada is a “filthy place” – this, according to a handwritten letter sent by a Canadian al-Qaeda agent to his family back in Canada.
Once a University of Manitoba engineering student, Maiwand Yar left in 2007 and mailed the letter from a terrorist outpost in Pakistan.
The letter recently became public, and is being used as evidence in the American trial of Yar’s friend and former classmate, Muhanad al-Farekh, who is facing terrorism charges after being captured in Pakistan.
In the letter, Yar urges his family to leave Canada and instructs them to stop watching Hollywood movies and North American news stations — “nothing but lies”— and to avoid Western fashion and Canadian public schools.
“Put all the kids in an Islamic school and make the kids wear (a) hijab from an early age,” he commands.
This letter offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a radicalized jihadist. In his own words, he explains exactly what he is doing and why.
The letter goes against everything Justin Trudeau and his friends want us to believe about Islamists, and debunks many of the prevailing myths pushed by those who sympathize and apologize for radical Islamists.
First, the letter provides a calm and clear explanation for why this young man left Canada to join a terrorist army. Yar insists he isn’t crazy or under any illusions when it comes to his hatred for Canada.
Far from the narrative that terrorists suffer from mental illness, Yar emphasizes that he’s made a choice, and he believes it’s the right one.
Second, Yar explicitly says he’s not brainwashed. “It hurts me so much that you believe I left because I was brainwashed and didn’t know what I was doing,” he writes. Yar instead accuses his family and the Muslim community in Canada of going astray and betraying his fundamentalist worldview.
Third, this terrorist is incredibly religious, and his letter is filed with references to Islamic scripture and scholars who promote violent jihad against non-Muslims.
It’s clear he’s a devout and fundamentalist Muslim, motivated by his faith. Anyone who still believes that Islamist terrorism has “nothing to do with Islam” should read this letter.
Forth, the letter is surprisingly articulate – revealing Yar as intelligent and well-educated. His beliefs are evil—based on 7th century morality and militant tribalism—but there is no doubt he possesses a thorough and well-researched ideology.
Finally, this letter debunks the prevailing myth that terrorists are driven by a lack of economic opportunity.
Graduating from a top Canadian university with an engineering degree could have landed Yar a high-paying job. He is smart, and could have had a very good life in Canada.
This terrorist didn’t reject Canada because he had no other options. He made a clear choice.
He believed he was fighting in a war of civilizations, and he was willing to die for his cause.
Jihadists repeatedly tell us, in cogent language, that they are fighting a war to destroy our civilization and to impose their Islamist ideology.
We can either choose to take terrorists at their word, and do something to stop the spread of Islamist jihad.
Or we can choose to believe Justin Trudeau – who sees terrorists as victims, deserving of a second chance. Trudeau said the Boston Marathon bombings only happened because someone “feels completely excluded.” He’s rewarded ex-terrorists – with cash and citizenship.
We can choose to be realistic or naive.
That’s our choice. The jihadists have made theirs.
--------------------------
^^^^ I think this is one of ZulF family members !!
cid:40FB4EFF-565E-4246-8CC7-02B3B7AA8CC0
Joshua Boyle: He's perhaps best known for his link to Khadr family
By Jacquie Miller
First posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017 07:21 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, October 12, 2017 08:49 PM EDT
Joshua Boyle, now free after five years of captivity in Afghanistan, is perhaps best known for his brief marriage to Omar Khadr’s older sister.
Boyle, the son of an Ottawa tax court judge, was married for about a year to Zaynab Khadr. She’s the eldest daughter of Ahmed Said Khadr, who was accused by the U.S. and Canada of being an associate and financier for the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. Ahmed Khadr studied at the University of Ottawa, and the family moved between Canada, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Zaynab Khadr was a fierce defender of both her father and her brother, Omar Khadr, who was captured as a 15-year-old fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan and charged with killing an American soldier.
How did Zaynab Khadr meet Boyle, a University of Waterloo graduate? Boyle had developed a keen interest in national security and human rights issues after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Boyle was principled, smart and a “crusader” by nature, said his friend Alex Edwards, who lives in Carleton Place. Boyle was captivated by the plight of Omar Khadr, who was being held in a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, said Edwards.
“Here was this kid, this Canadian child, off in an illegal American prison, and everyone in (Canada) was vilifying the Khadr family, and Josh decided, ‘Hey, this isn’t right.’ So he went off and devoted several years of his life to help this innocent kid.”
Boyle had no connection to the Khadr family, but introduced himself and volunteered to help them, said Edwards.
Boyle acted as the Khadr family spokesperson in 2008 when Zaynab staged a hunger strike on Parliament Hill to protest her brother’s detention. (After a decade at Guantanamo, Omar Khadr was returned to Canada, and later received a $10.5 million settlement from the Canadian government for violation of his charter rights.)
Boyle married Zaynab Khadr in 2009. He was 25, she was 29. It was the third marriage for Zaynab. The first two were arranged: her first husband was sought as a conspirator in a bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan; Osama Bin Laden was one of the guests at her second wedding in Afghanistan.
Back in Canada, Zaynab created controversy in 2004 for controversial remarks she made criticizing the way children were raised here and suggesting that the Sept. 11 terror attacks were justified.
Boyle defended his wife for her earlier remarks. In an email exchange with a Postmedia reporter, Boyle said his relationship with Zaynab had taught him that no one can accurately judge the character of a person they’ve never met.
“Are any of us honestly able to say that we have never uttered any phrases which, if they ran beside our name in the paper every month for five years, would paint an unflattering mental image in the public perception?” he asked, adding, “Let he without sin cast the first stone.”
Edwards said, as far as he knows, Boyle was not devoted to any particular political philosophy. He was a pacifist, anti-war and anti-abortion. “He once described himself to me as a hippie, Mennonite love child.”
Edwards knew Boyle over the course of more than a decade, mainly through an online role-playing Star Wars game. Boyle was a “very private person,” but had a reputation in the gaming world as being both cunning in getting people to do what he wanted and generous to new players, he said.
A few months after Boyle married Khadr, intruders broke into the west-end Ottawa home of his parents, Linda and Patrick Boyle. Patrick Boyle was a federal tax court judge.
Intruders smashed the front door, ransacked the house and left bullet holes in the windows. Nothing of value was taken, Postmedia reported. The Boyles were away at the time.
Joshua Boyle believed the break-in was somehow connected to his marriage.
“I’m sure I don’t have to speculate for you on the meaning of .22 calibre bullets fired from close range through residential windows following an unwarranted break-in by an intruder who left behind all the jewelry, cash and valuables in the house,” he wrote to Postmedia at the time.
“Perhaps somebody is unhappy that the Boyles are highlighting to the public just how human the Khadrs really are,” he wrote. At the time, he was living in Toronto with Zaynab and her daughter from a previous marriage.
The marriage didn’t last long, though. They divorced in 2010.
The next year, Boyle married Caitlan Coleman, a U.S. citizen who grew up in rural Stewartstown, Pa., according to an article in The Inquirer.
The pair met on Star Wars fan sites.
Coleman was home-schooled, according to the Inquirer, which quoted friends describing her as “a woman shaped by rural values, with a big-hearted curiosity about the wider world.”
The couple married while on a hike through Central America, the article said.
In the summer of 2012, they thought they had the experience to handle a backpacking trip to Central Asia, according to a video interview with Coleman’s parents.
Caitlan was pregnant at the time.
Afghanistan was not on their itinerary, so it’s unclear how they ended up there, said the Inquirer.
Boyle and Coleman were used to travelling in places most people don’t go, said Edwards.
The couple had done “freelance aid work” in South America before, so perhaps they meant to do the same in Afghanistan, he speculated.
“We can’t know for sure, but they probably meant to do much the same in Afghanistan and a number of other Central Asian nations,” Edwards wrote in a blog post. “What’s even less clear is why they thought this was a good idea. Joshua has a loose connection to Afghanistan, a deep respect for Islam — he may even have been in the process of converting — and a purely academic interest in terrorism, but none of that even remotely qualifies him to travel safely in Afghanistan. It could have been simple naiveté, but I, and many others, have always known Joshua as an exceptionally cunning and savvy man. Maybe he was overconfident. Maybe he was immature. Maybe this time Joshua just bit off more than he could chew.”
The couple was believed to be travelling in Wardak province in Afghanistan when they were abducted by a Taliban-affiliated group in the fall of 2012.
jmiller@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JacquieAMiller
Joshua Boyle: He's perhaps best known for his link to Khadr family | Canada | Ne
By Jacquie Miller
First posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017 07:21 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, October 12, 2017 08:49 PM EDT
Joshua Boyle, now free after five years of captivity in Afghanistan, is perhaps best known for his brief marriage to Omar Khadr’s older sister.
Boyle, the son of an Ottawa tax court judge, was married for about a year to Zaynab Khadr. She’s the eldest daughter of Ahmed Said Khadr, who was accused by the U.S. and Canada of being an associate and financier for the terrorist group Al-Qaeda. Ahmed Khadr studied at the University of Ottawa, and the family moved between Canada, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Zaynab Khadr was a fierce defender of both her father and her brother, Omar Khadr, who was captured as a 15-year-old fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan and charged with killing an American soldier.
How did Zaynab Khadr meet Boyle, a University of Waterloo graduate? Boyle had developed a keen interest in national security and human rights issues after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Boyle was principled, smart and a “crusader” by nature, said his friend Alex Edwards, who lives in Carleton Place. Boyle was captivated by the plight of Omar Khadr, who was being held in a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, said Edwards.
“Here was this kid, this Canadian child, off in an illegal American prison, and everyone in (Canada) was vilifying the Khadr family, and Josh decided, ‘Hey, this isn’t right.’ So he went off and devoted several years of his life to help this innocent kid.”
Boyle had no connection to the Khadr family, but introduced himself and volunteered to help them, said Edwards.
Boyle acted as the Khadr family spokesperson in 2008 when Zaynab staged a hunger strike on Parliament Hill to protest her brother’s detention. (After a decade at Guantanamo, Omar Khadr was returned to Canada, and later received a $10.5 million settlement from the Canadian government for violation of his charter rights.)
Boyle married Zaynab Khadr in 2009. He was 25, she was 29. It was the third marriage for Zaynab. The first two were arranged: her first husband was sought as a conspirator in a bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan; Osama Bin Laden was one of the guests at her second wedding in Afghanistan.
Back in Canada, Zaynab created controversy in 2004 for controversial remarks she made criticizing the way children were raised here and suggesting that the Sept. 11 terror attacks were justified.
Boyle defended his wife for her earlier remarks. In an email exchange with a Postmedia reporter, Boyle said his relationship with Zaynab had taught him that no one can accurately judge the character of a person they’ve never met.
“Are any of us honestly able to say that we have never uttered any phrases which, if they ran beside our name in the paper every month for five years, would paint an unflattering mental image in the public perception?” he asked, adding, “Let he without sin cast the first stone.”
Edwards said, as far as he knows, Boyle was not devoted to any particular political philosophy. He was a pacifist, anti-war and anti-abortion. “He once described himself to me as a hippie, Mennonite love child.”
Edwards knew Boyle over the course of more than a decade, mainly through an online role-playing Star Wars game. Boyle was a “very private person,” but had a reputation in the gaming world as being both cunning in getting people to do what he wanted and generous to new players, he said.
A few months after Boyle married Khadr, intruders broke into the west-end Ottawa home of his parents, Linda and Patrick Boyle. Patrick Boyle was a federal tax court judge.
Intruders smashed the front door, ransacked the house and left bullet holes in the windows. Nothing of value was taken, Postmedia reported. The Boyles were away at the time.
Joshua Boyle believed the break-in was somehow connected to his marriage.
“I’m sure I don’t have to speculate for you on the meaning of .22 calibre bullets fired from close range through residential windows following an unwarranted break-in by an intruder who left behind all the jewelry, cash and valuables in the house,” he wrote to Postmedia at the time.
“Perhaps somebody is unhappy that the Boyles are highlighting to the public just how human the Khadrs really are,” he wrote. At the time, he was living in Toronto with Zaynab and her daughter from a previous marriage.
The marriage didn’t last long, though. They divorced in 2010.
The next year, Boyle married Caitlan Coleman, a U.S. citizen who grew up in rural Stewartstown, Pa., according to an article in The Inquirer.
The pair met on Star Wars fan sites.
Coleman was home-schooled, according to the Inquirer, which quoted friends describing her as “a woman shaped by rural values, with a big-hearted curiosity about the wider world.”
The couple married while on a hike through Central America, the article said.
In the summer of 2012, they thought they had the experience to handle a backpacking trip to Central Asia, according to a video interview with Coleman’s parents.
Caitlan was pregnant at the time.
Afghanistan was not on their itinerary, so it’s unclear how they ended up there, said the Inquirer.
Boyle and Coleman were used to travelling in places most people don’t go, said Edwards.
The couple had done “freelance aid work” in South America before, so perhaps they meant to do the same in Afghanistan, he speculated.
“We can’t know for sure, but they probably meant to do much the same in Afghanistan and a number of other Central Asian nations,” Edwards wrote in a blog post. “What’s even less clear is why they thought this was a good idea. Joshua has a loose connection to Afghanistan, a deep respect for Islam — he may even have been in the process of converting — and a purely academic interest in terrorism, but none of that even remotely qualifies him to travel safely in Afghanistan. It could have been simple naiveté, but I, and many others, have always known Joshua as an exceptionally cunning and savvy man. Maybe he was overconfident. Maybe he was immature. Maybe this time Joshua just bit off more than he could chew.”
The couple was believed to be travelling in Wardak province in Afghanistan when they were abducted by a Taliban-affiliated group in the fall of 2012.
jmiller@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JacquieAMiller
Joshua Boyle: He's perhaps best known for his link to Khadr family | Canada | Ne
Omar Khadr can't avoid civil judgment by recanting war crimes plea: Plaintiff's lawyers
Canadian Press
More from Canadian Press
Published:
January 11, 2018
Updated:
January 11, 2018 5:49 PM EST
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is seen in Mississauga, Ont., on Thursday, July 6, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin PerkelColin Perkel / THE CANADIAN PRESS
By Colin Perkel, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr cannot avoid a huge civil judgment against him by recanting the confession and guilty plea he made before an American military commission, lawyers acting for the widow of a U.S. special forces soldier argue in new court filings.
Canadian courts must accept the agreed statement of facts that underpinned Khadr’s war-crimes conviction in 2010, they argue, regardless of whether he lied under oath when he admitted to tossing a hand grenade that killed the soldier eight years earlier.
‘I share that anger’; PM reacts to townhall Khadr heckler
Khadr issue will be an albatross for Trudeau
Liberals punted on 1st down with $10.5M Omar Khadr settlement
GUNTER: Khadr decision shows Liberals soft on terror
MALCOOM: Trudeau rewards a terrorist with citizenship
“No court anywhere, either in Canada or the U.S., has found the (agreed statement) specifically was involuntary or the product of coercion,” the lawyers state in their filing last month. “A sworn confession is not lightly ignored, particularly when (Khadr) benefited significantly from it in terms of a plea agreement resulting in a reduced sentence and the eligibility to be commuted back to Canada.”
Nor is it relevant, they argue, how Khadr was treated after American forces captured him as a 15-year-old in Afghanistan in July 2002 and shipped him off to the infamous prison where, Canadian courts have concluded, he was abused and his rights violated.
The lawyers are calling on Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench to enforce a US$134-million judgment against Khadr handed down in Utah in June 2015 in favour of Sgt. Chris Speer’s widow, Tabitha Speer, and former U.S. special forces soldier Layne Morris. Chris Speer was killed following a massive U.S. assault on an insurgent compound in which Khadr was badly wounded. Morris was blinded in one eye during the same operation.
In exchange for a further eight-year prison term and the promise he could serve most of it in Canada, the Toronto-born Khadr admitted in 2010 before a widely discredited military commission in Guantanamo Bay to having thrown the grenades that killed Speer and injured Morris.
Khadr later said that his detailed confession — contained in a lengthy agreed statement of facts written by American military prosecutors — and guilty plea to five purported war crimes were his only way to be returned to Canada. He also now says he doesn’t remember what happened during the four-hour Afghanistan assault.
In defending against the enforcement application in Alberta, Khadr maintained he was a child soldier whose rights were violated by both his American captors and Canadian officials. His Edmonton-based lawyer, Nate Whitling, asserted in a statement of defence filed in November that the military commission was a bogus court that prosecuted made-up crimes without regard to Khadr’s age and complaints of torture.
The Supreme Court of Canada, Whitling notes, found that Khadr made self-incriminating statements to American and Canadian officials at Guantanamo while detained under conditions that “offend the most basic Canadian standards about the treatment of detained youth suspects.”
The federal government apologized to Khadr and, in a move still having political repercussions, paid him $10.5 million last summer to settle a civil claim he made against Ottawa. Word of the settlement prompted the American plaintiffs to make an unsuccessful bid to have an Ontario court freeze his assets while they fought to enforce the Utah judgment in Canada.
Given the Supreme Court findings and Ottawa’s apology to Khadr, Whitling maintains that recognizing the Utah award would “offend Canada’s public policy principles.”
In rebuttal, the Americans’ Calgary-based lawyer Dan Gilborn argues Canada, like Utah, has legislation that allows victims of terrorism to sue for damages.
“There can be no breach of Canadian public policy to enforce a judgment obtained in the same way a Canadian can obtain a similar judgment,” says Gilborn, who argues Khadr didn’t qualify as a “child soldier.”
Nor is it the role of a Canadian court to effectively act as an Appeal Court for the American military commission proceedings, Gilborn says.
To avoid running afoul of procedural time limits, Gilborn said the Alberta case might yet be put on hold in favour of a similar application in Ontario. That action, filed last June, has seen little movement beyond an initial flurry of activity. Whitling had no comment on any potential agreement to set the Alberta proceedings aside.
Khadr, 31, who is now married, was released on bail in Alberta in 2015 pending the outcome of his stalled appeal in the U.S. of his military commission conviction.
None of the Americans’ arguments nor Khadr’s defence against them related to the Utah judgment has been tested in a Canadian court.
Omar Khadr can’t avoid civil judgment by recanting war crimes plea: Plaintiff’s lawyers | Toronto Sun
Canadian Press
More from Canadian Press
Published:
January 11, 2018
Updated:
January 11, 2018 5:49 PM EST
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr is seen in Mississauga, Ont., on Thursday, July 6, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin PerkelColin Perkel / THE CANADIAN PRESS
By Colin Perkel, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr cannot avoid a huge civil judgment against him by recanting the confession and guilty plea he made before an American military commission, lawyers acting for the widow of a U.S. special forces soldier argue in new court filings.
Canadian courts must accept the agreed statement of facts that underpinned Khadr’s war-crimes conviction in 2010, they argue, regardless of whether he lied under oath when he admitted to tossing a hand grenade that killed the soldier eight years earlier.
‘I share that anger’; PM reacts to townhall Khadr heckler
Khadr issue will be an albatross for Trudeau
Liberals punted on 1st down with $10.5M Omar Khadr settlement
GUNTER: Khadr decision shows Liberals soft on terror
MALCOOM: Trudeau rewards a terrorist with citizenship
“No court anywhere, either in Canada or the U.S., has found the (agreed statement) specifically was involuntary or the product of coercion,” the lawyers state in their filing last month. “A sworn confession is not lightly ignored, particularly when (Khadr) benefited significantly from it in terms of a plea agreement resulting in a reduced sentence and the eligibility to be commuted back to Canada.”
Nor is it relevant, they argue, how Khadr was treated after American forces captured him as a 15-year-old in Afghanistan in July 2002 and shipped him off to the infamous prison where, Canadian courts have concluded, he was abused and his rights violated.
The lawyers are calling on Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench to enforce a US$134-million judgment against Khadr handed down in Utah in June 2015 in favour of Sgt. Chris Speer’s widow, Tabitha Speer, and former U.S. special forces soldier Layne Morris. Chris Speer was killed following a massive U.S. assault on an insurgent compound in which Khadr was badly wounded. Morris was blinded in one eye during the same operation.
In exchange for a further eight-year prison term and the promise he could serve most of it in Canada, the Toronto-born Khadr admitted in 2010 before a widely discredited military commission in Guantanamo Bay to having thrown the grenades that killed Speer and injured Morris.
Khadr later said that his detailed confession — contained in a lengthy agreed statement of facts written by American military prosecutors — and guilty plea to five purported war crimes were his only way to be returned to Canada. He also now says he doesn’t remember what happened during the four-hour Afghanistan assault.
In defending against the enforcement application in Alberta, Khadr maintained he was a child soldier whose rights were violated by both his American captors and Canadian officials. His Edmonton-based lawyer, Nate Whitling, asserted in a statement of defence filed in November that the military commission was a bogus court that prosecuted made-up crimes without regard to Khadr’s age and complaints of torture.
The Supreme Court of Canada, Whitling notes, found that Khadr made self-incriminating statements to American and Canadian officials at Guantanamo while detained under conditions that “offend the most basic Canadian standards about the treatment of detained youth suspects.”
The federal government apologized to Khadr and, in a move still having political repercussions, paid him $10.5 million last summer to settle a civil claim he made against Ottawa. Word of the settlement prompted the American plaintiffs to make an unsuccessful bid to have an Ontario court freeze his assets while they fought to enforce the Utah judgment in Canada.
Given the Supreme Court findings and Ottawa’s apology to Khadr, Whitling maintains that recognizing the Utah award would “offend Canada’s public policy principles.”
In rebuttal, the Americans’ Calgary-based lawyer Dan Gilborn argues Canada, like Utah, has legislation that allows victims of terrorism to sue for damages.
“There can be no breach of Canadian public policy to enforce a judgment obtained in the same way a Canadian can obtain a similar judgment,” says Gilborn, who argues Khadr didn’t qualify as a “child soldier.”
Nor is it the role of a Canadian court to effectively act as an Appeal Court for the American military commission proceedings, Gilborn says.
To avoid running afoul of procedural time limits, Gilborn said the Alberta case might yet be put on hold in favour of a similar application in Ontario. That action, filed last June, has seen little movement beyond an initial flurry of activity. Whitling had no comment on any potential agreement to set the Alberta proceedings aside.
Khadr, 31, who is now married, was released on bail in Alberta in 2015 pending the outcome of his stalled appeal in the U.S. of his military commission conviction.
None of the Americans’ arguments nor Khadr’s defence against them related to the Utah judgment has been tested in a Canadian court.
Omar Khadr can’t avoid civil judgment by recanting war crimes plea: Plaintiff’s lawyers | Toronto Sun
spaminator, that article goes back to june 2017, you have effectively invented your own version of necro.
Omar Khadr wants a Canadian passport to travel, seeks permission to speak to sister
Canadian Press
Published:
December 10, 2018
Updated:
December 10, 2018 6:46 PM EST
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, 30, is seen in Mississauga, Ont., on Thursday, July 6, 2017. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel)
EDMONTON — Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr wants to be granted a Canadian passport to travel to Saudi Arabia and permission to speak to his controversial sister.
Khadr, who is now 32, will be back in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Edmonton Thursday to apply for changes to his bail conditions which were imposed while he appeals war crime convictions by a U.S. military commission.
An affidavit by Khadr filed with the court says the impact of his bail conditions are mainly psychological — a daily reminder of what he went through.
“I feel like the indefinite and potentially endless detention that I suffered in Guantanamo Bay is continuing,” he wrote. “I hope that there will be some end to this process, but there is none in sight.”
Khadr spent years in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay after he was caught when he was 15 and accused of tossing a grenade that killed special forces soldier Christopher Speer at a militant compound in Afghanistan in 2002.
He says in his affidavit that he would like to be able to speak on the phone or over Skype to his sister Zaynab Khadr. He is also asking to perform the Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia which is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims once in their lifetime.
“For this reason, I would like to apply for a Canadian passport,” he said in the document.
Zaynab Khadr has spoken in favour of al-Qaida and was investigated in Canada more than a decade ago for helping the terrorist network, but she was never charged.
“My sister Zaynab is not presently in Canada,” Khadr said in the document. “She is living with her husband and family. As far as I am aware, she is not in any sort of trouble.”
The rules of Khadr’s bail allow him to meet with her but only in the presence of his bail supervisor or one of his lawyers.
Khadr also needs permission to travel outside Alberta, and has made several trips to Toronto both to visit his family and deal with a civil lawsuit there to enforce a judgement granted against him in Utah.
In his affidavit, Khadr said he has been volunteering with an organization that helps refugees integrate into the community and has earned his high school diploma. Khadr said he is happily married and was accepted into a nursing program, but has been unable to devote himself to study due to his legal issues.
“My reintegration into the community has been filled with happiness and not bitterness,” he wrote. “I have no anger towards anyone and I have been getting on with my life. I have made many friends, and I am proud and happy to be a Canadian citizen living in Canada.
“I have not gotten into any trouble of any kind with the authorities.”
His case has ignited sharp and divisive debate among Canadians over terrorism, human rights and the rule of law since the summer of 2017 when it was revealed the federal government had settled a lawsuit filed by him for a reported $10.5 million.
The payout followed a ruling by Canada’s Supreme Court in 2010 that Khadr’s charter rights were violated at Guantanamo and that Canadian officials contributed to that violation.
BONOKOSKI: Omar Khadr, just another tourist wandering Senate hallways?
http://torontosun.com/news/national...to-travel-seeks-permission-to-speak-to-sister
Canadian Press
Published:
December 10, 2018
Updated:
December 10, 2018 6:46 PM EST
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr, 30, is seen in Mississauga, Ont., on Thursday, July 6, 2017. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel)
EDMONTON — Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr wants to be granted a Canadian passport to travel to Saudi Arabia and permission to speak to his controversial sister.
Khadr, who is now 32, will be back in the Court of Queen’s Bench in Edmonton Thursday to apply for changes to his bail conditions which were imposed while he appeals war crime convictions by a U.S. military commission.
An affidavit by Khadr filed with the court says the impact of his bail conditions are mainly psychological — a daily reminder of what he went through.
“I feel like the indefinite and potentially endless detention that I suffered in Guantanamo Bay is continuing,” he wrote. “I hope that there will be some end to this process, but there is none in sight.”
Khadr spent years in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay after he was caught when he was 15 and accused of tossing a grenade that killed special forces soldier Christopher Speer at a militant compound in Afghanistan in 2002.
He says in his affidavit that he would like to be able to speak on the phone or over Skype to his sister Zaynab Khadr. He is also asking to perform the Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia which is a mandatory religious duty for Muslims once in their lifetime.
“For this reason, I would like to apply for a Canadian passport,” he said in the document.
Zaynab Khadr has spoken in favour of al-Qaida and was investigated in Canada more than a decade ago for helping the terrorist network, but she was never charged.
“My sister Zaynab is not presently in Canada,” Khadr said in the document. “She is living with her husband and family. As far as I am aware, she is not in any sort of trouble.”
The rules of Khadr’s bail allow him to meet with her but only in the presence of his bail supervisor or one of his lawyers.
Khadr also needs permission to travel outside Alberta, and has made several trips to Toronto both to visit his family and deal with a civil lawsuit there to enforce a judgement granted against him in Utah.
In his affidavit, Khadr said he has been volunteering with an organization that helps refugees integrate into the community and has earned his high school diploma. Khadr said he is happily married and was accepted into a nursing program, but has been unable to devote himself to study due to his legal issues.
“My reintegration into the community has been filled with happiness and not bitterness,” he wrote. “I have no anger towards anyone and I have been getting on with my life. I have made many friends, and I am proud and happy to be a Canadian citizen living in Canada.
“I have not gotten into any trouble of any kind with the authorities.”
His case has ignited sharp and divisive debate among Canadians over terrorism, human rights and the rule of law since the summer of 2017 when it was revealed the federal government had settled a lawsuit filed by him for a reported $10.5 million.
The payout followed a ruling by Canada’s Supreme Court in 2010 that Khadr’s charter rights were violated at Guantanamo and that Canadian officials contributed to that violation.
BONOKOSKI: Omar Khadr, just another tourist wandering Senate hallways?
http://torontosun.com/news/national...to-travel-seeks-permission-to-speak-to-sister
FUREY FACTOR: Does Khadr deserve passport to freedom?
Nelson Branco
Published:
December 11, 2018
Updated:
December 11, 2018 11:46 AM EST
Oh, Omar!
Why didn’t you take the money and just disappear?
Yep, convicted killer Omar Khadr is back making headlines.
This time, the former Guantanamo Bay detainee wants to be granted a Canadian passport to travel to Saudi Arabia and permission to speak to his controversial sister.
WATCH above as Anthony Furey puts Khadr’s latest request in perspective in a new episode of Furey Factor.
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http://torontosun.com/news/national/furey-factor-does-khadr-deserve-passport-to-freedom
Nelson Branco
Published:
December 11, 2018
Updated:
December 11, 2018 11:46 AM EST
Oh, Omar!
Why didn’t you take the money and just disappear?
Yep, convicted killer Omar Khadr is back making headlines.
This time, the former Guantanamo Bay detainee wants to be granted a Canadian passport to travel to Saudi Arabia and permission to speak to his controversial sister.
WATCH above as Anthony Furey puts Khadr’s latest request in perspective in a new episode of Furey Factor.
What do you think?
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Oi... this is gonna get messy.
Prevent him from going on Hajj, he could claim it interferes with his religious beliefs. That said I don't know if he'd be able to go to Mecca even with a passport since he's so well known internationally; a lot of airports may refuse him entry.
His sister on the other hand... that's easy. No. Unless he agrees to Skype or call her with his lawyer present and over a speaker.
Prevent him from going on Hajj, he could claim it interferes with his religious beliefs. That said I don't know if he'd be able to go to Mecca even with a passport since he's so well known internationally; a lot of airports may refuse him entry.
His sister on the other hand... that's easy. No. Unless he agrees to Skype or call her with his lawyer present and over a speaker.
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The usual HOID HORSE MANURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zaynab Khadr was detained last year for entering Canada carrying two computers containing "classified information" of a nature so sensitive the computers were both immediately confiscated by Csis agents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Naturely she DENIED the computers were hers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She was "just carrying them for delivery to FRIENDS"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And of course LIE-beral privacy laws prohibit us from knowing the nature of the information!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But a CYNIC would guess that the information might have been questions about BOMB MAKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since Bomb making is the Khadr family area of EXPERTISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Csis has persuaded our LIE-beral legal system to NEVER ALLOW Omar to have private communications with his sister- for fear he will pass on his bomb making knowledge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And our LIE-beral dominated legal system has even been persuaded that Omar should NEVER be allowed loose outside Canada EVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For fear he will drop in on his old Jihadist buddies and help the make bombs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I say if Omar wants to make his Hadj then there are TWO CONDITIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First- HE GIVES BACK THE $10 million dollars in blood money that LIE-berals gave him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And second- that he surrenders his Cdn citizenship and never returns from whatever pest hole he travels to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If he agrees to those conditions then he CAN GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And we can pray to a just God that Omar finds his way into a Reaper Drone gunsight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the judge has any brains the whole bail mess will be BURIED like the sick dogs breakfast it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omar Khadr wants to get his bail conditions eased so he can go back to making BOMBS for jihadist jerks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omar wants to meet with his vile sister Zaynab in private so he can fill her computer hard drive with instructions for others on how to build bombs so they can kill more western soldiers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omar wants to go on the Haj- the trip to worship at Mecca so he can thank God for the great gift- to the Muslim world- of idiot Cdn LIE-berals!!!!!!!!!!!
And he would like to say a personal thank you to God for the $10.5 million dollars that LIE-berals gave him!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
