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What a mess. I would like to know why the boy was not taken ino protective care andthe mother Maha el-Samnah charged with child abuse and neglect. <span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">She should be beaten.</span></span>
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Patriarch Ahmad Said al-Khadr met Osama bin Laden in 1985, funneled Canadian taxpayer moneys to him, eventually moving his entire family to Afghanistan to join him, dying in an October 2003 shoot-out with Pakistani forces.
Wife Maha Elsamnah took her then-14-year-old son Omar from Canada to Pakistan in 2001 and enrolled him for Al-Qaeda training.
Maha Elsamnah may have taken her then-14-year-old son Omar from Canada to Pakistan in 2001 and enrolled him for Al-Qaeda training but today she returned with another teenage son, Abdul Karim, from Pakistan to Canada. "The teen flashed a peace sign as his wheelchair was guided past a throng of reporters," the Canadian Press informs us. The Globe and Mail today quotes Khadr family members saying that if Abdul Karim is ever going to walk properly again, it will through the efforts of the Canadian health-care system.
To mark the occasion of their return, the Globe and Mail quotes Elsamnah insisting just a month ago that Al-Qaeda-sponsored training camps were the best place for her children. "Would you like me to raise my child in Canada to be, by the time he's 12 or 13 years old, to be on drugs or having some homosexual relationship? Is it better?" (April 9, 2004)</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Apr. 16, 2004 update: The Globe and Mail reports that Prime Minister Paul Martin has said the Khadrs can call Canada home despite their past ties to Osama bin Laden, despite many demands that the Toronto family be stripped of its Canadian citizenship. "When you break the law or obviously threaten the nation, then there are means to dealing with that and obviously [the government] would exercise those means—but fundamentally, there are rights of citizenship."
Rejoicing in the family's citizenship, Elsamnah said she picked up health-care forms for Abdul Karim. "We've just been to the [Ontario Health Insurance Plan] office. That's it. They said we have to fill out forms." She added said her son will have trouble waiting out the three-month residency term required to qualify for publicly funded health care. Elsamnah added: "I'm proud of what we are and I'm proud we're in Canada now. Believe me, I will not force myself on anyone as a Canadian citizen. . . . I'm demanding for my kids? Is that wrong? Is that a crime?"
Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman confirmed that the family is entitled to publicly-funded health care.
Apr. 20, 2004 update: Ah, the liberal pieties of the nanny state. Here is a woman, Maha Elsamnah, who has worked closely with bin Laden, endorsed his brand of Islam, and encouraged her children to engage in terrorism, and what do the Canadian authorities get exorcised about? Child abuse. Yup, child abuse. The National Post reports that the Children's Aid Society of Toronto commissioned a study by a psychologist, Marty McKay, on the young Abdul Karim. She expects he is suffering multiple mental problems. "I'd be surprised if the child wasn't suffering from two or three disorders, be it anxiety or depression suffered by the loss of family members and the fact he's been paralyzed. Psychologically, I'm sure he's quite a mess." And this sentence in the National Post dispatch is unforgettable: "Since Canada has legislated aggressive spankings as child abuse, the 14-year-old's involvement with terrorists and his brush with violent death could cause his mother serious legal complications."</div></div>
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Canadian convicted terrorist Omar Khadr is back in Canada after a decade in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and a year after he was eligible for repatriation.
A Pentagon source told The Globe and Mail that Mr. Khadr departed from the U.S. naval base before 4:30 a.m. Saturday aboard a U.S. military plane.
That plane landed at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, in Trenton, Ont., about three hours later. Mr. Khadr was then driven away with an Ontario Provincial Police escort. He was taken to the Millhaven Institution federal maximum-security prison in Bath near Kingston, Ont</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"Omar Khadr was born in Canada and is a Canadian citizen. As a Canadian citizen, he has a right to enter Canada after the completion of his sentence," Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said. "This transfer occurs following a process initiated by the United States Government and determined in accordance with Canadian law." He said he's "satisfied" Corrections Canada can safely administer Mr. Khadr's sentence.
Mr. Khadr has six years remaining on his eight-year prison sentence but under Canadian law, he could be eligible for parole as early as the summer of 2013.
One of Mr. Khadr's Canadian lawyers, Brydie Bethell, spoke with him Saturday morning shortly after he touched down in Canada.
"He's very happy. He is relieved. This is obviously a huge day for him," she said. "There's no question that the wait has been extremely painful for him, but he's dreamt of this moment for a very long time – for over a decade."
Mr. Khadr was in Millhaven's assessment centre and had a cell to himself. He'll be there while Corrections Canada decides where he should serve his sentence. While single-cell accommodation is Corrections Canada's standard, about 86 per cent of the inmates at Millhaven's assessment centre share cells built for one.
Ms. Bethell, who will meet with Mr. Khadr in person later Saturday, says she has no idea where that might be. The assessment process can take as little as a day or as long as several months.
"For his own security, that would make sense [to put Khadr in a maximum-security facility] but on the other hand there's no need for him to be placed in maximum security. He's been a model inmate in Guantanamo. Ask any guard," Ms. Bethell said. "If Omar's feeling insecure, that's something the Canadian government has created ... by using every opportunity to demonize him and turn the public against him."</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Despite these concerns, Mr. Toews said he's satisfied Corrections Canada and the Parole Board of Canada can "administer Mr. Khadr's sentence in a manner which recognizes the serious nature of the crimes that he has committed ... through appropriate programming during incarceration and, if parole is granted, through the imposition of robust conditions of supervision."
Ms. Bethell slammed Mr. Toews's characterization Saturday of Mr. Khadr as a dangerous felon in need of special consideration or security measures by Corrections Canada. "There's no basis in reality to this idea," she said. "For a politician to try and tell an expert corrections official how to do their job, that would be unusual, to say the least."
In principle, decisions made by Corrections Canada and the National Parole Board regarding what to do with an offender are independent, said Audrey Macklin, a lawyer who has worked on several cases advocating for Mr. Khadr.
"It should be an administrative decision made by people with expertise in corrections about where Omar Khadr, based on his individual characteristics and needs, should be placed," she said. "In principle, that is a decision that should not engage political interference."
So it's somewhat off-putting, she said, that Mr. Toews would note in his statement Saturday he's optimistic the Parole Board will protect public safety, "if parole is granted, through the imposition of robust conditions of supervision."
"Governments have ways of communicating to bureaucrats what decisions they want," she said. "The resilience of bureaucrats, their ability to maintain their professional integrity and independence, can be brought under pressure. One hopes that won't happen here."
Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae said on Saturday that Canada must help Mr. Khadr reintegrate into society once he is eventually released from prison.
The Liberal Party called for Mr. Khadr’s repatriation to Canada “the moment” the American authorities said they would not take his age into consideration and treat him as a child soldier, said Mr. Rae, who spoke to reporters at the Ontario Liberal Party’s annual meeting in Ottawa.
“We felt he should have been dealt with in the Canadian court system,” Mr. Rae said. “Its been a long time that this man has been in custody in very, very difficult conditions. its important that we do everything we can before he gets out to make sure he’s rehabilitated.”
The news of Mr. Khadr's transfer to Canada came as somewhat of a surprise to his lawyers: Lt-Col. Jackson was flying to Toronto Saturday in preparation for cross-examination arguments next week as part of Mr. Khadr's lawyers' attempt to convince a court to force Mr. Toews to make up his mind. Ms. Bethell said she found out Mr. Khadr was returning before Saturday, but wouldn't elaborate.</div></div>
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nati...article4576945/
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Patriarch Ahmad Said al-Khadr met Osama bin Laden in 1985, funneled Canadian taxpayer moneys to him, eventually moving his entire family to Afghanistan to join him, dying in an October 2003 shoot-out with Pakistani forces.
Wife Maha Elsamnah took her then-14-year-old son Omar from Canada to Pakistan in 2001 and enrolled him for Al-Qaeda training.
Maha Elsamnah may have taken her then-14-year-old son Omar from Canada to Pakistan in 2001 and enrolled him for Al-Qaeda training but today she returned with another teenage son, Abdul Karim, from Pakistan to Canada. "The teen flashed a peace sign as his wheelchair was guided past a throng of reporters," the Canadian Press informs us. The Globe and Mail today quotes Khadr family members saying that if Abdul Karim is ever going to walk properly again, it will through the efforts of the Canadian health-care system.
To mark the occasion of their return, the Globe and Mail quotes Elsamnah insisting just a month ago that Al-Qaeda-sponsored training camps were the best place for her children. "Would you like me to raise my child in Canada to be, by the time he's 12 or 13 years old, to be on drugs or having some homosexual relationship? Is it better?" (April 9, 2004)</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Apr. 16, 2004 update: The Globe and Mail reports that Prime Minister Paul Martin has said the Khadrs can call Canada home despite their past ties to Osama bin Laden, despite many demands that the Toronto family be stripped of its Canadian citizenship. "When you break the law or obviously threaten the nation, then there are means to dealing with that and obviously [the government] would exercise those means—but fundamentally, there are rights of citizenship."
Rejoicing in the family's citizenship, Elsamnah said she picked up health-care forms for Abdul Karim. "We've just been to the [Ontario Health Insurance Plan] office. That's it. They said we have to fill out forms." She added said her son will have trouble waiting out the three-month residency term required to qualify for publicly funded health care. Elsamnah added: "I'm proud of what we are and I'm proud we're in Canada now. Believe me, I will not force myself on anyone as a Canadian citizen. . . . I'm demanding for my kids? Is that wrong? Is that a crime?"
Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman confirmed that the family is entitled to publicly-funded health care.
Apr. 20, 2004 update: Ah, the liberal pieties of the nanny state. Here is a woman, Maha Elsamnah, who has worked closely with bin Laden, endorsed his brand of Islam, and encouraged her children to engage in terrorism, and what do the Canadian authorities get exorcised about? Child abuse. Yup, child abuse. The National Post reports that the Children's Aid Society of Toronto commissioned a study by a psychologist, Marty McKay, on the young Abdul Karim. She expects he is suffering multiple mental problems. "I'd be surprised if the child wasn't suffering from two or three disorders, be it anxiety or depression suffered by the loss of family members and the fact he's been paralyzed. Psychologically, I'm sure he's quite a mess." And this sentence in the National Post dispatch is unforgettable: "Since Canada has legislated aggressive spankings as child abuse, the 14-year-old's involvement with terrorists and his brush with violent death could cause his mother serious legal complications."</div></div>
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Canadian convicted terrorist Omar Khadr is back in Canada after a decade in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and a year after he was eligible for repatriation.
A Pentagon source told The Globe and Mail that Mr. Khadr departed from the U.S. naval base before 4:30 a.m. Saturday aboard a U.S. military plane.
That plane landed at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, in Trenton, Ont., about three hours later. Mr. Khadr was then driven away with an Ontario Provincial Police escort. He was taken to the Millhaven Institution federal maximum-security prison in Bath near Kingston, Ont</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"Omar Khadr was born in Canada and is a Canadian citizen. As a Canadian citizen, he has a right to enter Canada after the completion of his sentence," Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said. "This transfer occurs following a process initiated by the United States Government and determined in accordance with Canadian law." He said he's "satisfied" Corrections Canada can safely administer Mr. Khadr's sentence.
Mr. Khadr has six years remaining on his eight-year prison sentence but under Canadian law, he could be eligible for parole as early as the summer of 2013.
One of Mr. Khadr's Canadian lawyers, Brydie Bethell, spoke with him Saturday morning shortly after he touched down in Canada.
"He's very happy. He is relieved. This is obviously a huge day for him," she said. "There's no question that the wait has been extremely painful for him, but he's dreamt of this moment for a very long time – for over a decade."
Mr. Khadr was in Millhaven's assessment centre and had a cell to himself. He'll be there while Corrections Canada decides where he should serve his sentence. While single-cell accommodation is Corrections Canada's standard, about 86 per cent of the inmates at Millhaven's assessment centre share cells built for one.
Ms. Bethell, who will meet with Mr. Khadr in person later Saturday, says she has no idea where that might be. The assessment process can take as little as a day or as long as several months.
"For his own security, that would make sense [to put Khadr in a maximum-security facility] but on the other hand there's no need for him to be placed in maximum security. He's been a model inmate in Guantanamo. Ask any guard," Ms. Bethell said. "If Omar's feeling insecure, that's something the Canadian government has created ... by using every opportunity to demonize him and turn the public against him."</div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Despite these concerns, Mr. Toews said he's satisfied Corrections Canada and the Parole Board of Canada can "administer Mr. Khadr's sentence in a manner which recognizes the serious nature of the crimes that he has committed ... through appropriate programming during incarceration and, if parole is granted, through the imposition of robust conditions of supervision."
Ms. Bethell slammed Mr. Toews's characterization Saturday of Mr. Khadr as a dangerous felon in need of special consideration or security measures by Corrections Canada. "There's no basis in reality to this idea," she said. "For a politician to try and tell an expert corrections official how to do their job, that would be unusual, to say the least."
In principle, decisions made by Corrections Canada and the National Parole Board regarding what to do with an offender are independent, said Audrey Macklin, a lawyer who has worked on several cases advocating for Mr. Khadr.
"It should be an administrative decision made by people with expertise in corrections about where Omar Khadr, based on his individual characteristics and needs, should be placed," she said. "In principle, that is a decision that should not engage political interference."
So it's somewhat off-putting, she said, that Mr. Toews would note in his statement Saturday he's optimistic the Parole Board will protect public safety, "if parole is granted, through the imposition of robust conditions of supervision."
"Governments have ways of communicating to bureaucrats what decisions they want," she said. "The resilience of bureaucrats, their ability to maintain their professional integrity and independence, can be brought under pressure. One hopes that won't happen here."
Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae said on Saturday that Canada must help Mr. Khadr reintegrate into society once he is eventually released from prison.
The Liberal Party called for Mr. Khadr’s repatriation to Canada “the moment” the American authorities said they would not take his age into consideration and treat him as a child soldier, said Mr. Rae, who spoke to reporters at the Ontario Liberal Party’s annual meeting in Ottawa.
“We felt he should have been dealt with in the Canadian court system,” Mr. Rae said. “Its been a long time that this man has been in custody in very, very difficult conditions. its important that we do everything we can before he gets out to make sure he’s rehabilitated.”
The news of Mr. Khadr's transfer to Canada came as somewhat of a surprise to his lawyers: Lt-Col. Jackson was flying to Toronto Saturday in preparation for cross-examination arguments next week as part of Mr. Khadr's lawyers' attempt to convince a court to force Mr. Toews to make up his mind. Ms. Bethell said she found out Mr. Khadr was returning before Saturday, but wouldn't elaborate.</div></div>
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nati...article4576945/
Apparently he wants to become a doctor. He should get full support.
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