Arar playing the world's smallest violin. I had no idea Arar was so sensitive, poor him. National PostMaher Arar, the Ottawa software engineer tortured in Syria after being deported there in 2002 by the United States on suspicion of terrorist links, responded for the first time yesterday to renewed claims that connect him to terrorist activity.[...]
"Why won't you leave me alooooooooooooooooooone?!?!?!"
Mr. Arar denied the claim yesterday. "It was shocking," he told Canadian media. "I have to tell you for a week at least I've been in a deep depression."
Maybe Arar will swindle another $10 million from the Canadian government for depression. Cry me a river.
Showing posts with label omar khadr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label omar khadr. Show all posts
Friday, January 30, 2009
Aw, Maher Arar depressed b/c Khadr fingered him in Afghanistan
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Omar Khadr places Maher Arar in Afghanistan
Maher Arar, Syrian born with a Canadian citizenship, was deported to Syria by US authorities back in 2002. After his release from Syrian custody, Arar returned to Canada, and later received $10.5 million after an inquiry clear his name of any terrorist links.
Now it appears that Omar Khadr, a member of Canada's al Qaida family, identified Arar by name from a photograph. Khadr claims he saw Arar in al Qaida safe houses and at a training camp in Afghanistan. However, Arar was in Canada when Khadr had said he saw him in Afghanistan.
But what I'm wondering is how did a 15 year old Khadr recognize Arar by face and name? Maybe Khadr had his dates wrong but it seems like he knew who Arar was. It will be interesting to find out more info. National PostU.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Omar Khadr's terrorism-linked "identification" of Maher Arar emerged Tuesday as less emphatic than testimony before a Guantanamo Bay military hearing suggested the day before.
Notes taken at an FBI interview of the Canadian-born terror suspect following his 2002 capture in Afghanistan show Mr. Khadr stated only that Mr. Arar -- whose 2002 deportation and torture in Syria has come to symbolize excess in the war on terror -- "looked familiar."
The notes go on to say that "in time" Mr. Khadr "stated he felt he had seen" Mr. Arar, the hearing heard.[...]
The FBI agent was firm Monday in saying Mr. Khadr identified Mr. Arar by name when shown a photograph of the former computer engineer, who lives in Ottawa.
Mr. Fuller added that Mr. Khadr claimed to have seen Mr. Arar at an al-Qaeda-run "safe house" near Kabul "on several occasions" -- and also said he "might have seen him" at an al-Qaeda training camp.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Omar Khadr Sues Canadian PM Stephen Harper
A desperate attempt by Omar Khadr's lawyers to avoid trial. Ottawa Citizen
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Omar Khadr, the Canadian man accused of war crimes, is suing Stephen Harper, asking that a judge order the prime minister to step in to help repatriate him from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The lawsuit, filed yesterday with the Federal Court of Canada, argues that this country has an obligation to co-operate in the rehabilitation and social reintegration of children illegally used in armed conflict.
Mr. Khadr, born in Toronto, was 15 when he was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The United States alleges he threw a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier and has held him for six years awaiting trial on war crimes charges.
"This is predictable," said Mr. Kory Teneycke, the prime minister's director of communication. "It's an attempt by Mr. Khadr's lawyers to avoid a trial.
"Our position is the same as the previous Liberal position: Mr. Khadr should face these charges through a trial process and not through a political process or through the media."
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Abdullah Khadr Denied Bail
Some good news. Abdullah Khadr, the elder brother of Omar Khadr, is denied bail. His defense lawyers had asked that Khadr be released on $500000 bail and for him to work at a local mosque. The Globe & Mail
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TORONTO -- A Canadian judge has denied bail to the eldest male member of the Khadr family, saying he is dangerous and his family members generally not credible. At the same time, however, the judge rejected a Crown suggestion that a Scarborough mosque frequented by the family is a hotbed of terrorism.
Abdullah Khadr, 27, has been jailed in Toronto since he returned to Canada in 2005, fighting extradition on a U.S. warrant that alleges he sold arms to al-Qaeda while living in Pakistan. He will remain jailed for the foreseeable future.
"Mr. Khadr is alleged to be an arms supplier for al-Qaeda," Mr. Justice Gary Trotter writes in a 25-page Ontario Superior Court decision released late Tuesday. "... I am hard pressed to think of a more serious set of offences."
But Crown lawyers argued Mr. Ibrahim or any Salaheddin official was unsuitable as a bail surety, given that several prominent terrorism suspects have prayed at the mosque.
Judge Trotter, while upholding that Mr. Khadr was unsuitable for release, also found the Crown overreached in its arguments concerning the mosque.
"I accept that, over the years, there may have been persons involved in questionable activities with questionable associations, who have passed through the centre from time to time," Judge Trotter wrote. "In my view this in itself is not sufficient to taint the centre in any way."
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Defense Lawyers for Abdullah Khadr Ask for Bail
Abdullah Khadr's, the eldest son of Canada's al Qaida family, lawyers are proposing Khadr be released on $300000 bail and be allowed to work at a local mosque. Are you freakin' kidding me? We're gonna let someone who's charged with aiding al Qaida work at a mosque?? That's like letting someone charged with pepophilia go out on bail and work at a child day care facility. Toronto Star
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The eldest son of Canada's infamous Khadr family should be released on $300,000 bail and allowed to work at a local mosque pending the outcome of his extradition fight with the United States, where he is wanted on terrorism-related charges, his lawyers plan to argue today.
Ottawa-born Abdullah Khadr, in custody since his arrest more than 2 1/2 years ago, was denied bail in December 2005 after the judge decided the case for his extradition appeared to be solid.
The U.S. is seeking to try Khadr, 27, on charges of buying weapons for Al Qaeda and plotting to kill Americans in Afghanistan.
Under his bail proposal, Khadr would hold an office job at the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in east-end Toronto.
Khadr's defence is also proposing he reside with his maternal grandparents in the city's east end and that he wear an electronic monitoring bracelet capable of tracking his whereabouts at all times.
His grandparents have pledged their house as $250,000 surety, while the Islamic centre and community have raised $50,000.
In an affidavit, however, Crown lawyers argue the centre has ties to terrorism because Khadr's father, who had known links to terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, once had his charity's corporate office at the mosque.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Pathetic Protest Calls for Khadr's Release
Khadr's mother, Maha Elsamnah, brother Karim Khadr and sister Zaynab Khadr joined the protest.One thing I don't get is why are these peaceniks defending the very people who ignited this war? They defend child killers, terrorists tyrannical thugs and defame countries that stand for freedom, liberty and justice.
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Shouts and cries filled the street along with howling winds and a lone piper's lament as protesters raised placards calling for the release of Khadr, who was captured as a 15-year-old in 2002 during a firefight in Afghanistan.
Khadr's mother, Maha Elsamnah, brother Karim Khadr and sister Zaynab Khadr joined the protest.
"This is just the beginning of a larger campaign. Expect to see more rallies and ongoing campaigns from people calling on the Canadian government to actually do something to get Khadr back here for a just trial," said Lacombe.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Khadr Has Earned His Stay at Gitmo
Enough said. National Post
"My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U. S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out, and he did that successfully and that is the underlying reason why we're all here in the first place," Sgt. Morris said.
Interrogation Video of Omar Khadr
Here's the 10min video of the interrogation of Omar Khadr. At the time of this video Omar Khadr was approximately 16 years old. He was captured in Afghanistan after a fire fight with US marines. It is alleged that he killed a US medic with a grenade. Omar Khadr is part of the infamous Canadian al Qaida family.
For all those bleeding hearts out there that are disturbed by this video, save your tears. Save your tears for the people who had their heads chopped off by terrorists. Save you tears for the women who have been murdered by terorrists. Save your tears for all the innocent people who were blown to bits by terrorists. Those are the true crimes against humanity.
Video below the fold....
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Khadr Used as Mop to Clean His Own Urine
Khadr's allegations of mistreatment by the US are written in an 8 page affidavit. Some of the allegations include threat of rape and being used as a mop to clean up urine in his cell. National Post
As horrible as these things might seem I have no sympathy for Khadr. I doubt anything he testified to will be considered as torture
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NEW YORK -- Omar Khadr alleges serious mistreatment by his U.S. captors -- including that he was threatened with rape and was used as a mop to clean up urine on his cell floor -- in his first public comments since he was detained on an Afghanistan battlefield in 2002.
The Toronto-born accused terrorist, who was 15 when the U.S. government claims he lobbed a hand grenade that fatally injured a U.S. special forces soldier, also says he told a Canadian delegation in 2003 that the Americans "would torture" him -- so he told them "whatever they wanted" to hear.
The first-person allegations are contained in eight typed pages of an affidavit Mr. Khadr, now 21, swore for submission to a war-crimes commission the United States established to try terror suspects following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.In one untouched passage, Mr. Khadr recalls how, at age 16, he was used as a mop after he had been cuffed in various contorted positions for at least an hour, and urinated on himself and the floor.
Read the whole thing
"Military police poured pine oil on the floor and on me," Mr. Khadr says. "And then, with me lying on my stomach with my hands and feet cuffed together behind me, the military police dragged me back and forth through the mixture of urine and pine oil on the floor."
He says he was refused a shower before being returned to his cell, and denied a change of clothing for two days. The same thing happened again "a few weeks later," he adds.
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Mr. Khadr says he was threatened with sexual violence on several occasions at Bagram.
"Interrogators threatened to have me raped, or sent to other countries like Egypt, Syria, Jordan or Israel to be raped," he says.
He says he faced 42 interrogations during three months at Bagram, before being transferred to Guantanamo.
Mr. Khadr says he and other detainees being transferred to Guantanamo were denied food and drink for two nights and a day "so that we would not have to use the bathroom on the plane."
Upon arrival at the U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba, he says he recalls one military official saying: "Welcome to Israel."
"They half-dragged, half-carried us so quickly off the plane that everyone had cuts on their ankles from the shackles," he says. "They would smack you with a stick if you made any wrong moves."
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Khadr's Lawyers Hint Torture
Pretty slick, Khadr's lawyers must've read the al Qaida training manual which tells it's operatives to claim torture if ever caught. It's a familiar pattern, every terrorist that is captured cried torture, to discredit the authorities. National Post
Khadr is currently in Guantanamo Bay before a military tribunal. Khadr, who was 15 at the time, is accused of killing a US medic with a grenade during a battle in Afghanistan. For those of you who don't know, the Khadr family is infamous in Canada because they are known as the al Qaida family and they have all expressed they're love of Osama Bin Laden on Canadian National TV.
U.S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Lawyers for Omar Khadr seek the names of the people who interrogated him shortly after his July 2002 capture in Afghanistan, suspecting they subjected him to techniques similar to those that led to the deaths of two other detainees in the same detention centre.
In a motion Thursday before the U.S. war crimes court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the lawyers will ask the military judge to order that the U.S. government identify the officers so they can be questioned and possibly called as witnesses if Mr. Khadr's case continues to trial as currently scheduled.
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