Posted on 07/05/2017 9:49:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A former inmate of the Guantanamo prison camp, returned to Canada in 2015 and then released, will get $10 million from the Canadian government and an apology.
Omar Khadr, the son of a known al-Qaeda terrorist leader, was captured after a firefight in Afghanistan where he threw a grenade killing a US medic and wounding others. These facts are not in dispute. Khadr pleaded guilty to the charges but claimed he was a "child soldier" forced to fight by his father.
Khadr's lawyer says his client was tortured by the US while he was at Guantanamo, suffering from sleep deprivation and psychological stress. The lawyer also claims that his client was not given adequate medical care.
Mr. Khadr was captured in Afghanistan at the age of 15 in 2002, following a shootout with U.S. troops where he was badly wounded – blinded by shrapnel in one eye and with fist-sized exit wounds in his shoulder and chest.
He was accused of throwing a grenade that killed U.S. army medic Christopher Speer in the firefight and was sent to the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay.
Mr. Khadr, now 30, spent more than 10 years in U.S. and Canadian custody, much of that time in the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Once the youngest detainee in Guantanamo, he was transferred to Canada in 2012 after accepting a plea deal.
Mr. Edney has said his client was treated abysmally even though he was a child soldier and his body shattered from wounds. U.S. interrogators subjected him to sleep deprivation and solitary confinement.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The detainees at Gitmo who were guilty of killing Americans should have been fed to the sharks, not released.
Now Canaduh is rewarding one of them handsomely.
Others that went home or to a third country for “rehabilitation” have rejoined the jihad.
How stupid is our government?
He’s channeling obama in redistributing wealth. I wonder how much of this will return to Trudeau as a “campaign donation”?
Canadians have so much to be proud of...sarc.
I think the lesson here is,don’t take insurgents prisoner.
He was badly wounded,finish him up and move on.
Something is going wrong with Canada. Sure is interesting who really respects us. Looks like a global swamp cleaning needs to be done.
Trudeau graduated from the same school as Obama. The school of “I am that I am”
And ah...how much money did Christopher Speer’s family get?
What a twisted world we live in.
I hope you have noticed all of the prisoners we and the others are capturing in Raqqa. Just so you know.
Why did anyone thing this animal was a worthy prisoner? Why not just kill him in Afghanistan?
We call that basic training and deployment.
That’s too bad.Should have all been executed.
This guy was a combatant, not a terrorist, if the article is to be believed. He never should have been in prison.
Well surprise. Canada is not putting the USA first.
By all means permit Canada to embrace the snake, if he is such.
$10 million Canadian?
That’s like, what....three, four hundred bucks?
[cymbal crash]
By whose law, by whose ROE?
You do not personally a substitute for the USA make.
My opinion as well. I was in a different war but it has seemed to me for a long time that the best thing to do in Afghanistan is to pack up and leave after killing all the males and nuking the ingress/egress ground routes so they are impassible for some decades.
$10 will make a lot of bombs and pay off a lot of suicide bomber families. Nice work, morons, eh?
Afghanistan is such as to be practically unconquerable, and destruction on the scale you recommend would guarantee the rise of the left for a long, long time.
At best, entry to it and exit from it can be policed. Whatever it wants to have within, we can’t control.
Breaking news from Cana-duh.
First item, the announcement has created a big controversy and is by no means universally popular. However, what’s not obvious from the news reporting is that the government may be trying to cut losses before Omar Khadr’s lawsuit (in Canada) reaches a conclusion. He’s suing for twice what he’s being awarded.
That does not make it right, but context is context.
Second substantial development, two U.S. citizens, the widow of the slain medic and another soldier who lost an eye in the Afghanistan battle where Khadr was captured, have launched a lawsuit in Canada to recover this award as part of what a U.S. (Utah) court has awarded them ($143 million U.S.) but which cannot be collected in Canada as the Utah court has no power to enforce collection.
A Canadian court judgement would overcome that problem and allow the two American plaintiffs to collect at least this part of their award.
On the political side of things, it seems that the Trudeau government hoped this would just ripple through public consciousness during the summer doldrums (our parliament does not sit from about mid-June to mid-September, unless there is some sort of crisis). Trudeau’s on an extensive European tour which leads up to the G-20 summit.
If he thought this would just ripple through, he was wrong. There is a lot of opposition and it could turn into a big political problem for the government which has been cruising along with relatively good ratings to this point.
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