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    Canada to give apology, millions to compensate former Gitmo detainee who killed US soldier

    Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he was captured during a firefight in Afghanistan for allegedly flinging a hand grenade that killed a U.S. soldier. He became the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay prison.

    The Canadian-born man, now 30, will receive an apology from the Canadian government and about 10.5 million in Canadian dollars, or about US$8 million, under a deal his lawyers negotiated last month, the Toronto Star and other publications reported this week.

    Khadr's lawyers argued that he was subjected to sleep deprivation and solitary confinement while in U.S. custody, and that the Canadian government violated Khadr's rights by sharing intelligence information about him with the U.S.

    In 2002, U.S. forces captured Khadr, whose father had ties to al-Qaida and had brought the boy to Afghanistan where he was being trained to make bombs.

    While at Guantanamo Bay, Khadr pleaded guilty in a pre-trial agreement and was convicted of charges, including murder in violation of the laws of war and spying. He was sentenced to eight years of confinement and, under the terms of the agreement, could serve his remaining time in Canada.

    He was transferred to his home country in September 2012. Khadr's treatment while in detention in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay was investigated and brought before a U.S. military judge, who ruled there was "no credible evidence the accused was ever tortured ... even using a liberal interpretation considering the accused's age."

    In 2015, Khadr was released on bail and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada.

    Canada's Conservative Party released a statement in protest of the apology and payment, saying, "Meet Canada's newest multi-millionaire — Omar Khadr. ... It is one thing to acknowledge alleged mistreatment, but it is wrong to lavishly reward a convicted terrorist who murdered an allied soldier who had a wife and two children."

    A lawyer for Tabitha Speer, the widow of the slain soldier in Afghanistan — U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer, has filed an application to redirect any of the money paid to Khadr to instead go to the widow and another solider injured in the battle, Sgt. Layne Morris, who lost an eye.

    Khadr's compensation is similar to that given to Canadian Maher Arar when an inquiry found that Canadian officials turned over information about him to U.S. officials, leading to his detention in Syria.

    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/...itmo-detainee/

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    Absolutely outrageous. It's all over the news and social media here.

    Our prime minister is Muslim. He's not hiding it anymore.

    He was raised Catholic. His dad, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, was a very disliked prime minister, but young JT has outdone him in his first year and a half.

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    The islamist organizations will laugh until they can't breathe. The son of a man with al Qaeda ties becomes a billionaire (by Afghan standards) courtesy of his enemies while the US couldn't get anyone to give up Osama Bin Laden for a similar sum of money.

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    Now chances are Canada will be guilty of funding terrorism....

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    I am aghast at hearing that the PM of Canada is a Muslim. I had no idea. Pray for our neighbors up North.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    Absolutely outrageous. It's all over the news and social media here.

    Our prime minister is Muslim. He's not hiding it anymore.

    He was raised Catholic. His dad, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, was a very disliked prime minister, but young JT has outdone him in his first year and a half.
    Wow! Really? What does your country think of this?

    You have any links where he says he is?

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    I don't know that he's made a public announcement but he keeps doing things that support the Muslim population. From immigration and changing religious discrimination laws to make islamaphobia punishable by law to simply wearing socks that celebrate "eid Mubarak" for the month of Ramadan, which,btw, he wore to Torontos gay pride parade. He also said, Happy pride to Allah!" Which is a very weird thing to say. There have been lots of hints at it and when I was talking about it at intercessory prayer the other day, one of our ladies, who spent 4 months this winter in Ottawa interning with the Conservative Party of Canada, said it's common knowledge there.

    Here's the Happy pride video.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I3PGmS6K97E


    (Sorry, I'm on my phone and hard to type out a long answer so I hope this makes sense. )

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    Sounds like he's doing an Obama. Meaning it's mostly a leftist thing where religion is just something that makes people happy and they are all equal per default, as long as the adherents behave. So he can fake being a Catholic, a Muslim or whatever, his peers don't care because it's never heartfelt.

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