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Khadr the Younger back in Canada - maybe
2003-12-01
A Canadian terror suspect whose whereabouts had been in question following his release by U.S. authorities is back home, according to reports. Abdul Rahman Khadr is believed to have arrived in Canada early Sunday.
No doubt the citizens of Yellowknife are thronging the streets with joy...
Khadr, 20, was reportedly given a special permit to return home after walking into the Canadian Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia last week.
"I'm here. Gimme a ticket back to Kaffirland..."
A consular official accompanied Khadr, a Canadian citizen, on his trip to Toronto.
"Yessir! Right this way, sir! Wouldja like me to hold your turban, sir?"
Khadr was held without charges at the American base at Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist suspect and was secretly released last month.
"Get the hell out, Koran boy!"
He was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan nearly two years ago on suspicion of being an al Qaeda fighter. Khadr reportedly said that after he was released by U.S. authorities, they refused to take him to Canada and instead dropped him in Afghanistan. He had no Canadian [passport] or money.
"Whaddya mean, you don't want to go back to Afghanistan? We thought you liked Afghanistan. Y'got a nice shipping container to live in, a turban, and lotsa fellows named Mahmoud to hang around with."
He said he borrowed money from friends and went to the Canadian High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan looking for help, but they turned him away because he had no way to identify himself.
"Do we know you? Have we been introduced?"
Khadr then went to Iran and Turkey before arriving late last week in Bosnia.
How'd he get there? Thumbed a ride?
His family insisted Khadr had been trying to get back to Canada, but Ottawa said there was no truth to claims he’d been turned away by Canadian officials in Pakistan and Turkey.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#5  Well, Nord must be something else. I was at Alert in January and that is a friggin' hell of a place to live if you are outside. Might as well live on Mars (if there was air to breath).
Posted by: capt joe   2003-12-1 9:01:17 PM  

#4  capt joe---been flying my plane around ellesmere island from Resolute one summer. It is quite bleak even at that time. Too bad that the Danes are not in with us tight. There is an old base called Nord on the northern tip of Greenland that makes Alert look like a worker's paradise, heh heh. BTW, Yellowknife is a neat town in summer, but winters are not so friendly.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-12-1 2:17:35 PM  

#3  Speaking of Yellowknife, they should send all the jihadis up there. You aren't that interested in terrorism if you are freezing to death.

Naw, make it Ellesmere Island (80% north). There is a canadian base (CFB Alert) up there and it is 2000 miles walk to the nearest town if they escape. Way better than Gitmo. They would beg to go back to gitmo after that.
Posted by: capt joe   2003-12-1 12:39:06 PM  

#2  So we put him back where we found him. If he had a Canadian Passport when we snarfed him up, we would've given it back to him.

Now, since he's back in maple-cured baconland, he could be in New York next week. Great.

So how's that Friendship Fence coming?
Posted by: .com   2003-12-1 11:59:57 AM  

#1  No money, no ID....Afghanistan to Pakistan, to Iran, to Turkey, to Bosnia, to Canada. His thumb must be a little sore.
Posted by: john   2003-12-1 11:19:42 AM  

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