"G'bye, warden! I'm off to Syria to... ummm... teach Arabic to disadvantaged widows and orphans!"
Omar Baby FaceKhadr, a Canadian citizen who was just 15 when he threw the grenade that killed U.S. Army medic Christopher Speer in Afghanistan during a 2002 firefight, was ordered freed on bail by an Edmonton appeals judge. Now 28, Khadr claims to be a different person from the young Al Qaeda follower who admitted killing Speer, but critics say he has not paid the price.
"Omar Khadr is a convicted Al Qaeda terrorist, guilty of war crimes," Ezra Levant, author of "The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies, and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr," told FoxNews.com. "He murdered a U.S. medic in cold blood. A jury sentenced him to 40 years in prison, but President B.O. offered him a plea deal for just eight years, and now parole will reduce that further. This isn't sufficient, especially given that Khadr has never publicly renounced terrorism or Al Qaeda, or his own father's terrorism."
Speer, 28, of Denver, was a sergeant first class who was with four other soldiers on reconnaissance patrol when they entered a building in the Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
that had been destroyed by air attacks. They were ambushed by terrorists, including Khadr, and Speer died a month later at a facility at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
Khadr, who was born in Toronto, but grew up mostly in Pakistain, where his father was accused of being an associate of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-
Zawahiri... Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as
the real brains of the outfit.Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area. That is not a horn growing from the middle of his forehead, but a prayer bump, attesting to how devout he is...
, confessed to throwing the grenade as part of a plea deal he accepted in 2010. The confession Khadr signed acknowledged that he built and helped place explosives for Al Qaeda, and noted that U.S. soldiers gave women and kiddies an opportunity to leave the compound where Khadr and Al Qaeda gunnies were hiding before they began the bombing. One woman and a child left the compound and survived, but Khadr stayed. Khadr, who was badly injured, was locked away
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
at the scene, and sent to Guantanamo.
Although a military jury gave him a 40-year sentence, the term was merely symbolic, as the U.S. Justice Department had agreed to limit the sentence to eight years, and permitted the time to be served in Canada. Khadr is appealing his U.S. conviction of war crimes, for killing a medic.