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EDMONTON - Omar Khadr arrived at his new home Thursday after almost 13 years behind bars — four of them as a convicted war criminal — and asked Canadians to give him a chance to show he's worthy of their trust.

A Canadian judge ruled this week that former Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr poses no public safety threat. Tell that to the children of Sergeant First Class Christopher J. Speer and the surviving American soldiers who valiantly fought Khadr on the battlefield. In 2012, Khadr pleaded guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty and guilty to five charges related to the killing of Speer, a 28-year-old medic with the U.S. Special Forces. This young American hero died in Afghanistan in 2002 during an ambush by al-Qaida operatives. Just days before he gave his life, Speer had fearlessly walked onto a minefield to rescue two...

DECORATED SOLDIER FIGHTING TO KEEP FROZEN CANADIAN FUNDS AND ASSETS FROM FAMILY OF AL QAEDA SUPPORTERS Utah Reservist Filing Suit in Federal District Court against High Ranking al Qaeda Operative Salt Lake City, UT. August 6, 2004. U.S. Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Layne Morris and Tabitha Speer, widow of Sgt. 1st Class Christopher J. Speer, have retained the Salt Lake City law firms of Winder & Haslam and Burbidge & Mitchell and the Toronto law firm of Houser, Henry & Syron as counsel in a suit claiming serious injuries, including the loss of his right eye, suffered by Sgt....