Abdullah Khadr released after court ruling

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Source: CBC News

Abdullah Khadr, accused by the U.S. government of procuring weapons on behalf of al-Qaeda, is a free man after an Ontario court ordered his release Wednesday from a Toronto detention centre.

Khadr, the elder brother of Omar Khadr, the only Canadian held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was originally detained by Pakistani authorities before his arrest by RCMP at the request of U.S. officials upon his return to Canada in 2005.

U.S. authorities paid a $500,000 US bounty to Pakistani police to hold him for 14 months before he was returned to Toronto.

He has been detained without bail since Dec. 23, 2005, while the courts dealt with the U.S. request to extradite him.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/08/04/abdullah-khadr-extradition.html