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| U.S. Asked To Review Case Of Detainee, 15 |
| 2002-09-17 |
| Thanks to Steve for the article. Dallas Morning News requires registration... Canada wants more information about a 15-year-old Canadian citizen captured by U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan and has asked Washington to take his age into account as it decides what to do with him. This is the little bastard who killed a Special Forces medic with a grenade... Foreign Affairs spokesman Carl Schwenger said Monday that the International Committee of the Red Cross had visited Omar Khadr, who is being held by U.S. forces in Bagram and could be transferred to a U.S. base in Cuba as an enemy combatant. Leave him there until he dies of old age... Omar, whose father is alleged to be an al-Qaeda financier, was captured July 27 after being wounded during a battle in which a U.S. soldier was killed and four others were wounded. Canada learned of the teen's capture Aug. 20, when the U.S. government contacted officials seeking to verify his identity. "Teens" hang out at malls and go to proms. Little terrorist bastards throw grenades and kill people who're better than they could ever be... Canada asked for consular access to Omar, and the U.S. State Department refused. Maybe that's why Chretien's panties are all bunched... The refusal didn't specifically refer to him by name or contain any personal information, Mr. Schwenger said. It said Canada would be notified if any of its citizens are sent to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, as enemy combatants. Mr. Schwenger said Canada responded to the State Department by noting that Omar is a minor. "We specifically underlined our concern regarding his age," Mr. Schwenger said. And we specifically underlined out concern regarding the dead condition of our guy... "Minors are treated differently under law. We want to make that point, and we hope that would be taken into consideration." Okay. Let's consider it... Omar's older brother, 19-year-old Abdul Rahman Khadr, is also being held in Afghanistan. The teens' father, Ahmed Said Khadr, is an Egyptian-born Canadian citizen. He was arrested in Pakistan in 1995 after a bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad but was released. His whereabouts are unknown. Chretien personally intervened for this beauzeau, who then jumped bail. Terrorism is the family business. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #6 Chretien is one of the great creeps of our time. He thinks he is some kind of liberal but he is really a fascist at heart. |
| Posted by: Roger S. 2002-09-17 15:45:28 |
| #5 Omar? Hmmm.... Omar, Omar.... Nope, never heard of him. Next! |
| Posted by: mojo 2002-09-17 15:09:53 |
| #4 Operation S.I.C.K. |
| Posted by: sassafrass 2002-09-17 15:04:22 |
| #3 Sorry. Today's crowded... Here's the cite on Chretien's intervention, though the original link is dead. It's also mentioned in passing here. |
| Posted by: Fred 2002-09-17 12:04:12 |
| #2 This shit from Canada's ruling class makes me embarrassed to be a Canadian. First, it's Chretien's drug-addled crap about the West being responsible for the attacks: Greed, etc, etc, etc. Then he repeats it at the United Nations. No wonder many Americans must think us Canucks are truly loons. Then we get this Foreign Affairs geek's statements. More worried about this little creep's rights than what he did. Oh sorry, I'm sure this Schwenger would say "is alleged to have done." No mention of the American medic who was killed by the grenade. Oh man, I've been reading a tonne of stuff on the internet, but this one really got to me. Is there any chance the U.S. might like to pick up at least two more western states? There are enough people in Alberta (my province) and Saskatchewan who have had it with the Liberal ruling elite and the chattering classes in Canada that a change would be refreshing. And now we hear that the Liberals are talking about raising our Goods and Services Tax (the hated GST) at least three per cent to 10% or more to pay for all their social engineering and likely the Kyoto Accords which that asshole Cretin seems to think is the answer to all our woes. I apologize for this rant, but enough is enough of the fools that are running what is a great country into the ground. |
| Posted by: Larry 2002-09-17 11:53:01 |
| #1 Gotta citation for that last Chretien snafu? |
| Posted by: Tom Roberts 2002-09-17 11:40:47 |