Canada Gives U.S. War Resister Second Chance

[babylonsister]

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/waroniraq/#90957

Canada Gives U.S. War Resister Second Chance
Posted by Isaac Fitzgerald, The Real News Network on July 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM.

A Canadian court has sided with Joshua Key, a U.S. soldier and war resister who is seeking asylum, ruling that Key witnessed enough human rights abuses during an eight month tour in Iraq that he could qualify for refugee status.

"This is a real breakthrough," said Lee Zaslofsky of the Toronto-based War Resisters Support Campaign. "What excites us is this may also apply to other war resisters who took part in Iraq."

Joshua Key is just one of over 200 known U.S. soldiers currently residing in Canada in hopes of avoiding deployment to Iraq.

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[Solly Mack]

1. Good!

[skooooo]

2. I didn't think they'd just turn him over to the wolves.

[babylonsister]

4. No, but Canada has been talking about sending the war resisters back

to the US, so this is big/good news.

[madokie]

3. One of my good friends brother has been in canada since '68

on the way to his third trip to Vietnam he went north instead of west. Hes a good man who had his fill of killing innocent people