Breitbart’s Awr Hawkins is right on the money when he writes that ...”the Obama administration is pushing the deal” to transfer convicted al-Qaida terrorist and American soldier killer Omar Khadr from Guantanamo to Canada, where he can be out on the streets on parole as soon as next year.
But it’s more chilling than even that: The return of Khadr to Canada by the end of next month is proof positive that the far left in the U.S. works--successfully--hand in hand with the far left in Canada with a Barack Obama now in the White House.
From the get-go, left wing politicians, their fellow traveller celebrities and the mainstream media portrayed convicted killer Khadr as a “child soldier”, and on Nov. 19, 2007, in a CBS newscast, as an “obedient son”. In a video showing the then 16-year-old being interviewed by Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) agents in Guantanamo Bay in February, 2003, the weeping teen begged the agents, “Promise you’ll protect me from the Americans”. (CFP, July 15, 2008).
It showed on hidden camera how the vulnerable victim act was dropped the moment Khadr realized that the Canadian agents weren’t there to help, but to fish information.
“From behind the flaps of a ventilation shaft, a hidden camera caught all the rage and righteous indignation of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen raised by fundamentalist parents in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The 16-year-old al-Qaeda suspect and Guantanamo Bay detainee was facing allegations that he murdered a U.S. soldier.” (Globe and Mail, July 15, 2008). “So he wept. He denied everything. He pulled at his hair and pulled down his orange prisoner’s suit. He showed his war wounds, which nearly killed him (emphasis Canada Free Press) during a battle with U.S. soldiers six months earlier.”
Lost in the mists of time even back then was the name of the fallen U.S. soldier, Sgt. 1st class Christopher Speer, who left behind a heartbroken widow and family. Sgt. Layne Morris lost an eye in the same Afghanistan battle where Sgt. 1st class Speer was killed.
Staged by leftwing activists on both sides of the border, the fight to get Khadr back to Canada began only weeks after he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay.
Proof comes in an October 21, 2010, U.S. Dept. of Defense press release :”The United States Government (USG) has requested the assistance of the Canadian government in implementing the plea arrangement USG has made with Omar Khadr. As part of this plea agreement, Khadr has admitted his guilt for the following crimes: murder in violation of the law of war, attempted murder in violation of the law of war, conspiracy, providing material support for terrorism, and spying. The USG requested that Canada consider a request for transfer made by Khadr under existing treaty arrangements for the transfer of offenders between the two countries.”
And now convicted terrorist and killer Omar Khadr is coming home to Toronto to a family aptly described by his brother Abdurahman as “an al Qaeda family”.
Canada’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews admitted Thursday the government won’t block the transfer of Khadr from Guantanamo to a Canadian prison.
“Under the International Transfer of Offenders Act, he is a Canadian citizen. He is also a Canadian citizen under the Charter which entitles him to come back to Canada, eventually,” Toews told QMI Agency.
The Canadian government is also bracing for a multimillion-dollar lawsuit after the Supreme Court ruled in 2010 Khadr’s rights were violated while in U.S. custody.
Leftwing professors are busy arranging a speaker’s tour for Khadr.
Civil rights groups, sympathetic lawyers and the entire New Democrat Party (NDP) of Canada protested to spring “Boy Soldier” Khadr from a Gitmo, where he was afforded special privileges.
Among the Canadian celebs and names drawn to the cause was Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau, who criticized the Liberals when he spoke at a demonstration for the repatriation of Khadr in October of 2008.
“I have plenty of blame for them,” said Sacha Trudeau, son of former Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and brother of then Liberal candidate, now Liberal MP Justin Trudeau.
Among the activists working on behalf of Khadr’s Canadian repatriation on the American side of the border are those of CodePink.
“Restore habeas corpus!” a group of about two dozen protesters, some clad in orange prison jumpsuits, chanted in front of a U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, on Dec. 5, 2011.
“We believe these people should be charged or allowed to go home,” said Liz Hourican of the peace group CodePink (CTV.ca, Dec. 2007).
That’s the same CodePink that Michelle Obama told “Keep up the great work” during a fundraising trip to the Bay area on March 30.
Meanwhile, once back in Canada under Canadian law, Khadr would be eligible for parole as soon as next year after completing one-third of his sentence and statutory release after completing two-thirds.
And it was all made possible when the hard-left activists of two countries came together for a cause they knew they could win now that there’s a sympathetic-to-radical-Islam president in the White house.
Petition to stop Terrorist Omar Khadr from Returning to Canada
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-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
Breitbart’s Awr Hawkins is right on the money when he writes that ...”the Obama administration is pushing the deal” to transfer convicted al-Qaida terrorist and American soldier killer Omar Khadr from Guantanamo to Canada, where he can be out on the streets on parole as soon as next year.
But it’s more chilling than even that: The return of Khadr to Canada by the end of next month is proof positive that the far left in the U.S. works--successfully--hand in hand with the far left in Canada with a Barack Obama now in the White House.
