Posted on 03/08/2004 5:26:09 AM PST by Clive
We should be treating this guy as a patriot -- someone who risked his life to do the right thing.
Instead, he's viewed as a traitor or pariah -- certainly by his family.
As he told the CBC, 21-year-old Abdurahman Khadr turned against his family and worked inside the al-Qaida terrorist organization for the CIA and Western interests.
As a consequence he's reviled by relatives who support al-Qaida, and knows his life is in danger.
What is so disgraceful and disquieting is that his father, brothers, sisters, and relatives who have Canadian citizenship, mostly support al-Qaida. His father, who was eventually killed by Pakistani counter-terrorists, took his son to Afghanistan to become a suicide bomber.
Instead, Abdurahman was captured by Northern Alliance fighters and turned over to the Americans who convinced him to work for them inside the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
Later, he was sent to Bosnia to penetrate al-Qaida cells.
There's been so much disinformation in recent years about the Khadr family, that it's refreshing to have a breath of truth coming from Abdurahman.
His father, Ahmed Said Khadr, made news in the mid-1990s when, under arrest in Pakistan for terror activities, he was freed at the behest of visiting Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
Chretien believed that, as a Canadian citizen (from Egypt), Khadr was innocent and unjustly persecuted by the Pakistanis. Chretien overruled or ignored his security advisers and CSIS.
The dad was killed during a raid on terrorists. Another son was critically wounded and partially paralyzed while fighting for al-Qaida.
The family, according to Abdurahman, are all al-Qaida supporters. The family's shame and fury at Abdurahman verifies this.
His sister and mother, now in Pakistan, want to return to Canada for free medical care, since al-Qaida sympathies are no deterrence to citizenship.
Getting Abdurahman to talk on camera was a coup for the CBC and a service to Canada and, if you ask me, Canadian Muslims.
Some who initially believed the earlier lies, Abdurahman now admits he dispensed, have reluctantly sided with CSIS and are uneasy about the virtues they once saw in al-Qaida.
By now it should be clear that al-Qaida is no friend of Canada, or any western country.
Al-Qaida is an enemy of western values.
They are the ones waging a holy war against our way of life.
They attacked the World Trade Center, in which a couple of dozen Canadians died on Sept. 11, 2001.
We should be thankful to Abdurahman Khadr and hoping there are more like him out there, working for Western intelligence to close in on Osama bin Laden and future terrorists.
It is wrong and unfair to view this guy as a turncoat or defector.
Would anyone belittle a German in WWII who opposed the obscenities of Hitler and his Nazis?
How about those inside the Soviet system who saw the Cold War for what it was, and risked their lives to defeat that predatory system that fed on blood and subversion?
Abdurahman did not agree to be trained and work underground for the Americans for money. He was not a mercenary, seeking the main chance. He was captured, yes, but clearly his heart wasn't into being a terrorist. For him, becoming a suicide bomber for militant Islam held no appeal. Nor does he view America as the Great Satan.
The young man is salvageable, and we should help him the best we can -- and presumably CSIS is. In the continuing war against terrorism, in which we are all joined, whether we like it or not, Abdurahman Khadr represents a small victory.
He atones, in part, for the ideological depravity of his homicidal father who betrayed the country that gave him sanctuary and citizenship.
His sister and mother, now in Pakistan, want to return to Canada for free medical care, since al-Qaida sympathies are no deterrence to citizenship.
The west is the great satan and full of infidels...but I have no problem using their medical care for free?
What kind of sick, worm-eaten mind could cause a man to do that to his son?
I can think of only one cure, and that's a hollow-point.
Of course, humwarriors and islamist shills on FR inform us there is no such a thing as Al Qaeda terrorists in Bosnia. see transcript of Khadr interview
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