The Khadr Thread

[The Bread Guy]

Hmmmm ....

The federal Liberals are reconsidering the government’s position on Omar Khadr’s case and may not fight the ruling that let the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner go free earlier this year, according to his lawyer.

Khadr spent 13 years behind bars for his role in a firefight in Afghanistan that left a U.S. soldier dead, but has been free since May, when an Alberta judge granted him bail.

At the time of his release, the Conservative government of the day condemned the ruling and vowed to appeal it. But according to Khadr’s longtime attorney, Dennis Edney, the government has since requested that the deadline for submitting appeal arguments be delayed. Edney said the reason government lawyers sought the delay is that they were considering whether to oppose Khadr’s bail.

“Cabinet hadn’t been put together and given time to consider what it wants to do,” Edney explained in an interview with the Star.

According to Ian McLeod, a spokesman for the justice department, following the bail decision this spring, department lawyers and Khadr’s attorneys “presented a joint agreement to the Alberta Court of Appeal to extend filing timelines for appeal.”

McLeod confirmed that the appeal deadline had been extended until February 2016 but wouldn’t confirm when attorneys had sought the delay. He also didn’t say why the government had agreed to push back the deadline. But he noted that newly elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tasked Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould with “reviewing the government’s litigation strategy.”

“It would be premature to speculate on how that review may impact specific cases,” he said ....

Let's hope they're also reconsidering this one, too ....

 

[George Wallace]

An interesting development in the activities of members of the Khadr family:

Reproduced under the Fair Dealings provisions of the Copyright Act.

Omar Khadr's sister Zaynab detained in Turkey
Zaynab Khadr was under investigation by the RCMP for terror-related offences before she moved to Turkey in 2012.
By: Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter, Peter Edwards Star Reporter, Published on Sun Jan 31 2016

Zaynab Khadr, the outspoken sister of former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, is in custody in Turkey, the Star has learned.
It isn’t known whether she has been charged or is just being held.

Khadr had moved to Turkey around the time her younger brother Omar was transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Canada in September 2012. She reportedly remarried and had two young children.

She and her mother, Maha Elsamnah, came under strong criticism in Canada for remarks they made for a March 2004 CBC documentary titled Al Qaeda Family.

They were living in Pakistan at the time and criticized what they considered to be Canada’s liberal laws. Elsamnah said she would rather raise her children to fight than live in Canada, where they could become homosexuals or addicted to drugs, earning her family the title of “Canadians of convenience.”

In 2005, Zaynab Khadr was under investigation for terrorism offences by the RCMP, but never charged.

It is not known if the Canadian-born Khadr is being held in Turkey for a criminal or immigration matter.

A spokesperson for the Department of Global Affairs said the federal government is aware a Canadian was detained in Turkey and that Canadian officials in Ankara, Turkey, are providing consular assistance.

The identity of the individual detained could not be released for privacy reasons, the spokesperson said. The Khadr family story spans more than two decades to 1995, when Khadr’s father, Ahmed Said Khadr, was arrested in connection with the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad.

In July 2002, Omar Khadr was taken into U.S. custody at the age of 15 following a firefight in Afghanistan. He was charged for the death of U.S. Delta Force Sgt. Christopher Speer, who was fatally wounded by a grenade in the battle.

He pleaded guilty in Guantanamo in October 2010, in return for an eight-year sentence and a chance to be transferred to a Canadian prison.

Once back in Canada, he said he believed pleading guilty was his only way out of Guantanamo, but did not know whether he actually threw the grenade that killed Speer.

Omar Khadr was released in May to live with his lawyer, Dennis Edney, and is now attending university in Edmonton and training to become a medic.

One of his bail conditions is that he cannot talk to his mother or sister unless Edney is present.

When asked about his family in an interview last year for the Star and a CBC documentary, Omar Khadr replied: “They have said things that was not very smart — that they shouldn’t have said. They’re very opinionated.

“I think that they are good people. (But) they haven’t been able to deal with the past and the present. They’re really struggling. Some of my siblings have completely cut off their pasts and some of them are living in the past and not accepting the present.”

Turkey has been under intense pressure to stop the flow of fighters across its border into Syria and is dealing with the aftermath of recent terrorist attacks, including the Jan. 12 suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed 12 and injured more than a dozen.

Civil rights groups have also criticized the government’s use of overly broad antiterrorism laws to detain thousands of activists and journalists.

More on LINK.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Maybe it's the winter blahs, but I can't get excited anymore with anything attached to the Khadr name.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Unless it was a pitbull.............

 

[Kat Stevens]

I wouldn't let my pitbull chew on anything that nasty.

 

[CougarKing]

Typical of this current Liberal govt., many of whose members see him as the victim "child soldier".

Canadian Press

Ottawa drops appeal of Omar Khadr's bail
Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press
February 18, 2016

TORONTO - The federal government has decided against pursuing an appeal of an Alberta court's decision to grant former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr bail.

The decision came in a joint statement Thursday from Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould.

"The government of Canada respects the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, which determined that Mr. Khadr be released on bail in Canada pending his U.S. appeal of his U.S. convictions and sentence," the statement said.

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[ModlrMike]

So here's my question: when he applies for membership in whatever province as an EMT, and is refused because of his conviction, does he take them to court? I bet he does.

 

[The Bread Guy]

So here's my question: when he applies for membership in whatever province as an EMT, and is refused because of his conviction, does he take them to court? I bet he does.

Unless he can get a pardon - from who?

 

[cavalryman]

Unless he can get a pardon - from who?

President Obama?  I'm sure there will be some pardons available in the weeks before he leaves the WH  ;D

 

[Loachman]

Hilary will likely be looking for one soon, but probably too late for Obama. Perhaps that nice Mr Trump will be kind.

 

[Good2Golf]

He'll probably stay away from EMT...people throw grenades at those guys...some are even killed...

 

[The Bread Guy]

... probably too late for Obama ...

NEVER too late (examples here and here), no matter where you are on the political spectrum!  >

 

[Loachman]

Her trial and endless appeals will drag on well past Obama's term. Maybe midway through President Trump's second term.

 

[KevinB]

Her trial and endless appeals will drag on well past Obama's term. Maybe midway through President Trump's second term.

Well pretty sure the next AG is looking forward to this one.
cough Chris Christie cough
Rumor is he dropped out of the race in a deal with Trump to crucify her...

 

[CougarKing]

An arranged marriage with a bride originally from Pakistan/Egypt who may re-radicalize him the same way another bride radicalized the San Bernardino terrorist?

Yahoo News/Reuters

Ex-Guantanamo inmate Khadr engaged to be married

By Kelsey Cheng
April 19, 2016
Cheng

TORONTO (Reuters) - Former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr, who was once the youngest prisoner in the U.S. military jail, is engaged to be married to a human rights activist, a friend of the couple confirmed on Tuesday.

Khadr, 29, was returned to Canada in 2012 to serve the rest of his sentence for killing a U.S. soldier. A Canadian court later ruled that he could be released on bail and he left jail last year.

Khadr is now engaged to Edmonton, Alberta-based Muna Abougoush, according to the couple's friend Kathleen Copps.

Nathan Whitling, a lawyer who worked on Khadr's case, said the engagement is "a happy thing."


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[ueo]

And Carla Homolka is back in Canada.

 

[Loachman]

Oops. Good link: http://www.therebel.media/terrorist_omar_khadr_s_fianc_is_a_radical_muslim?utm_campaign=khadr_fiance&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel

 

[PuckChaser]

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[Oldgateboatdriver]

And Carla Homolka is back in Canada.

Hate to break the news to you, ueo, but she never left 

 

[Scoobie Newbie]

There were reports she did in fact leave.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=2a8b0256-b090-40e7-be6e-aa839bccb0fb&k=2217
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/karla-homolka-lives-in-guadeloupe-and-has-three-children-new-book-reveals/article4360378/