How do you feel about Omar Khadr, child soldier to was in Guantanamo Bay for years?

[applegrove]

Last edited Thu May 28, 2015, 11:27 PM - Edit history (1)

About half of Canadians think he is completely innocent. I agree he was a child soldier so he should be out. But his father did live with and advise Osama bin Laden in the run up to 9/11, and took his sons with him. For this reason I refuse to watch the interview tonight on the CBC. And I hope he is truly as decent as his dimples make him appears to be. And that he makes something of his life.

Omar Khadr tells his Guantanamo story in new documentary

By Daniel Schwartz, CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/omar-khadr-tells-his-guantanamo-story-in-new-documentary-1.3089953

[delrem]

1. He was an early-teen, 15 yrs old, a dependent. He was tortured.

He was kept in chains, in a state of helplessness and hopelessness for years. He was left to the devices of torture-murderers, heartless clinical technicians of evil, by Stephen Harper's gov't.

I totally despise Stephen Harper for that. Harper made me ashamed to be a Canadian.

[applegrove]

2. The father was a piece of work. He took his underage sons to Osama's compound in the

lead up to 9/11. Then he handed Omar over to the Taliban to be a translator during war.

[delrem]

3. He isn't his dad.

The torture murderers who had their way with Omar, for *years*, were a piece of work.

They got away with it.
In the highest places they were called "patriots", and excused because they were caught up in the emotion of the moment, etc. -- the kind of excuse they wouldn't give to a 15 yr old kid.

The evil fucks.

[polly7]

5. Agree with every word.

I still absolutely hate what happened to him.

[Spazito]

4. He didn't advise bin Laden about anything, he was 15...

There is a real question as to whether he threw the grenade that killed the American medic. He was tortured over a 13 year period, his 'confession' is less than worthless, imo.

Kudos to his lawyer and his wife for taking him in, helping him to adjust to his new life.

[applegrove]

6. I didn't mean to imply that.