Posted on 09/29/2012 8:25:23 AM PDT by george76
Omar Khadr has been sent from Guantanamo to Canada, after returning from the jihad in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Khadr is slated to stay in custody for the time being. It is difficult to think of a more mythologized figure in the post-9/11 war on terror. For the worldwide left, Khadr has become a symbol of all that is supposedly wrong with America’s fight against the al Qaeda terror network. He is now, in many minds, a victim. For one Canadian magazine, Omar Khadr is even a Christ-like figure.
But let us briefly review the facts about Omar Khadr.
Khadr killed Sergeant First Class (SFC) Christopher Speer. Khadr’s advocates said this wasn’t true because Khadr was incapacitated during al Qaeda’s firefight with American troops. But they were wrong. Khadr ultimately admitted that he killed SFC Speer.
While Khadr killed one American medic, his life was saved by others. Khadr would not be alive today if U.S. medics had not saved him from extensive wounds.
Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) considered Khadr a “high intelligence value” detainee because he provided “valuable information” about al Qaeda and the Taliban. Khadr’s father was a top al Qaeda figure. Khadr knew his father’s associates well, and spilled the beans on them.
Khadr served as a translator and a minion to a top al Qaeda operative in Afghanistan.
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Apparently, darn keyboard.
Got it. I stand corrected.
Next they’ll all be sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom and sitting on the SCOTUS. Oh, nevermind.
That’s what I was hoping would happen. Although our airspace may be a bit to far north for sharks to be waiting.
Failing that, I want to see him charged with treason. There are a lot of my fellow Canucks who agree.
Did you see this? It’s enough to make you hurl.
Ezra Levant isn’t a liberal.
Correct - Ezra Levant is far from liberal. I thought he was furious that the libs in Canada were celebrating the return of this terrorist. Everyone on Sun was determined to get the word out about this guy. The libs were portraying the terrorist as some kind of victim.
Ahh ok, I misread the comment then. It never ceases to amaze me how much sympathy people even here in Alberta have for muslims in general, I can’t wrap my brain around it. I only have to remember the book about liberalism being a mental disease, there is no other explanation.
Mental illness is the only explanation for liberalism. To keep believing in something when the facts defy it is not rational.
So sorry to hear that even good ol’ Alberta is so PC. I always considered Alberta to be Canada’s Texas, and so much more sensible than liberal Ontario.
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