Omar Khadr to get $10.5M, apology from Canadian government: source

Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press , Published Tuesday, July 4, 2017 10:19AM EDT, Last Updated Tuesday, July 4, 2017 11:18AM EDT, http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/omar...ent-source-1.3488076

TORONTO -- The Canadian government will pay former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr more than $10 million and officially apologize to him in settlement of a long-running lawsuit, a source familiar with the agreement said Tuesday.

The Toronto-born Khadr, 30, who pleaded guilty to five war crimes before a much maligned military commission in 2010 related to alleged offences that occurred in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was 15 years old, was suing the federal government for $20 million for breaching his rights.

Part of the $10.5 million Khadr will get will go to his legal team, while the apology would be delivered by the justice and public safety ministers, the source said.

Khadr's lawyers and a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale refused to comment publicly citing confidentiality reasons. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, however, did not deny a deal had been reached.

"There is a judicial process underway that has been underway for a number of years now," Trudeau said in Dublin, Ireland, on Tuesday. "We are anticipating, like I think a number of people are, that that judicial process is coming to its conclusion."

Amnesty International welcomed news of the settlement, which another source said was signed last Wednesday, calling it long overdue.

"For 15 years Omar Khadr's case has been a stark reminder of the many ways that an over-reaching and unchecked approach to national security readily runs roughshod over universally protected human rights," Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada, said in a statement.

"In Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay and in Canadian prisons, Omar Khadr's rights were consistently violated and ignored."

The settlement money, one source said, should not be seen as a windfall, given that Khadr is blind in one eye from injuries when he was captured, and there are fears he could lose sight in the other eye and will need ongoing care as he ages.

Khadr's lawyers filed the $20-million wrongful imprisonment lawsuit, arguing the government violated international law by not protecting its own citizen and conspired with the U.S. in its abuse of the prisoner.

The suit was, in part, based on a Supreme Court of Canada decision from 2010 that Canadian intelligence officials obtained evidence from Khadr under "oppressive circumstances," such as sleep deprivation, during interrogations at Guantanamo Bay in 2003, and then shared that evidence with U.S officials.

Khadr, who claimed the Americans tortured him after his capture and at Guantanamo Bay, was long dubbed a child soldier in need of protection by his supporters. However, the previous Canadian government, under then-prime minister Stephen Harper, steadfastly referred to him as an unrepentant terrorist.

"The previous Canadian government, at the most senior political levels, refused to take a stand for the rights of a Canadian citizen and for years offered only inflammatory rhetoric in the media, in Parliament and in the courts rather than make a genuine effort to come to his aid," Neve said.

A badly wounded Khadr was captured by U.S. troops following a firefight at a suspected al-Qaida compound that resulted in the death of an American special forces soldier, U.S. Army Sgt. Christopher Speer. Khadr was accused of throwing the grenade that killed Speer but the evidence against him was flimsy.

He pleaded guilty in 2010 to charges that included Speer's murder and was sentenced to for a further eight years in custody. Khadr later said he only pleaded guilty to get out of Guantanamo. The youngest and last Western detainee held at the infamous U.S. military prison in Cuba returned to Canada in 2012 to serve the remainder of his sentence. He was finally released on bail in Edmonton in May 2015 pending an appeal of his guilty plea.

After his release, he apologized to the families of the victims -- as he had done at his guilty plea. He also said he rejected violent jihad and wanted a fresh start to finish his education. Lately, he has said wanted to work as a nurse.

Speer's widow and retired American sergeant Layne Morris, who was blinded by a grenade at the Afghan compound where Khadr was captured, won a default US$134.2 million in damages against Khadr in 2015, but Canadian experts called it highly unlikely the judgment could be enforced.

A long-standing attempt to get the military commission conviction against Khadr overturned in the United States remains stalled.

Earlier this year, the federal government apologized to three men to compensate them for the role Canadian officials played in their torture in Syria and Egypt. The apology to Khadr would follow similar lines, the source said.

This is non sense. Omar Khadr needs to be sentenced to 10 years of helping keffer carry his dry goods box around. This fool took a medic's life.

Exactly! Canada is friken soft on some, Trudeau a lil slack here.

Interesting development on this issue.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's pending statement on this outcome will be of interest to see/know.

At $10.5M he does not have to go and fight with ISIS, any more takers. This is Bull Crap, the Canadian govt is rewarding Terrorists. Next they will give him a Purple Cross for killing an American.

Prashad posted:

This is non sense. Omar Khadr needs to be sentenced to 10 years of helping keffer carry his dry goods box around. This fool took a medic's life.

 

Dumb-ass, for the Nth time; stick to your daily shit-house cleaning routine and leave the discussion of other subjects to intelligent people !

Better yet Khadr can do a good job helping you keffer extract the empty bottles and pop cans from.garbage bins and dumpsters so that you can buy the dry goods for your box.

Prashad posted:

Better yet Khadr can do a good job helping you keffer extract the empty bottles and pop cans from.garbage bins and dumpsters so that you can buy the dry goods for your box.

Do your job; go wash the toilets before your superiors kick the shit out of you, Dumb-ass !

Keffer looks like you are grumpy this morning.  Your dumpster diving did not get you any breakfast? 

Looks like some nice nice tomatoes an half a green pepper, mmm, spaghetti here we come tarass.

Prashad posted:

Keffer looks like you are grumpy this morning.  Your dumpster diving did not get you any breakfast? 

 

 

Prashad posted:

Better yet Khadr can do a good job helping you keffer extract the empty bottles and pop cans from.garbage bins and dumpsters so that you can buy the dry goods for your box.

Prashad, once again I have to tell ...shut your k- k- hole; stop writing bilge because you do not know shit about Kadir ! I strongly suggest you  devote your time and energy to cleaning the white man's shit house; that is your destiny ! You insist on injecting your ignorant, dumb-ass statements into issues of which you are totally and completely ignorant !

Prashad posted:

Keffer looks like you are grumpy this morning.  Your dumpster diving did not get you any breakfast? 

 

I am not the one to be grumpy; you are ... with all the toilets that you have to love and caress each and every day ! You ought to be far more careful in spreading pictures of your ugly mug across the web ....

Prashad posted:

Hey Prashad do you know if this person ever found noodles, onion an some garlik for the spaghetti?

Did Trump read about this?

Cobra posted:

Did Trump read about this?

Trump doesn't know how to read. The banna makes all sorts of excuses when giving items to read.

cain posted:

Cobra posted:

Did Trump read about this?

Trump doesn't know how to read. The banna makes all sorts of excuses when giving items to read.

Trump and Prashad have two features in common; 1) they are both fugly and 2) despite not knowing shit about anything ... they still insist on flapping their toothless gums !

Keffer posted:

Prashad posted:

Keffer looks like you are grumpy this morning.  Your dumpster diving did not get you any breakfast? 

 

 

Prashad posted:

Better yet Khadr can do a good job helping you keffer extract the empty bottles and pop cans from.garbage bins and dumpsters so that you can buy the dry goods for your box.

Prashad, once again I have to tell ...shut your k- k- hole; stop writing bilge because you do not know shit about Kadir ! I strongly suggest you  devote your time and energy to cleaning the white man's shit house; that is your destiny ! You insist on injecting your ignorant, dumb-ass statements into issues of which you are totally and completely ignorant !

keffer I just realized that Omar Khadr's dad may have worked for you in the past in social services. Sorry buddy I totally forgot when I wrote the above statements.

Prashad posted:

Keffer posted:

Prashad posted:

Keffer looks like you are grumpy this morning.  Your dumpster diving did not get you any breakfast? 

 

 

Prashad posted:

Better yet Khadr can do a good job helping you keffer extract the empty bottles and pop cans from.garbage bins and dumpsters so that you can buy the dry goods for your box.

Prashad, once again I have to tell ...shut your k- k- hole; stop writing bilge because you do not know shit about Kadir ! I strongly suggest you  devote your time and energy to cleaning the white man's shit house; that is your destiny ! You insist on injecting your ignorant, dumb-ass statements into issues of which you are totally and completely ignorant !

keffer I just realized that Omar Khadr's dad may have worked for you in the past in social services. Sorry buddy I totally forgot when I wrote the above statements.

Yes, Jackass; he reported and still reports directly to me !

cain posted:

Prashad posted:

Hey Prashad do you know if this person ever found noodles, onion an some garlik for the spaghetti?

What do you mean 'this person' ?  That IS Prashad ! He had just finished cleaning his masters' toilets and was starting to have his breakfast !  

White ppl better watch the actions of their politicians. Being politically correct will eventually make them into poor ass ppl. 

Imagine a murderer gets 10.5 million dollars. And he such a barefaced prick, he will take the money too. White ppl courts too nice. 

Hey you guys ease up on the personal attacks on each other 

I myself do not agree with this payout

Prashad posted:

This is non sense. Omar Khadr needs to be sentenced to 10 years of helping keffer carry his dry goods box around. This fool took a medic's life.

 

Dumb-ass, before making pronouncements on subjects you are ignorant of, you go back to primary school and learn to spell ! Nobody gives a shit about your imbecile opinions so stop writing; spare us having to wade through the incoherent bilge that you write !  

Keffer posted:

Prashad posted:

This is non sense. Omar Khadr needs to be sentenced to 10 years of helping keffer carry his dry goods box around. This fool took a medic's life.

 

Dumb-ass, before making pronouncements on subjects you are ignorant of, you go back to primary school and learn to spell ! Nobody gives a shit about your imbecile opinions so stop writing; spare us having to wade through the incoherent bilge that you write !  

Keffer did you know Omar Khadr's dad around the time the Pakistan government threw him in Jail for blowing up the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan?

Amral posted:

Hey you guys ease up on the personal attacks on each other 

I myself do not agree with this payout

Okay Amral.

Prashad posted:

Keffer posted:

Prashad posted:

This is non sense. Omar Khadr needs to be sentenced to 10 years of helping keffer carry his dry goods box around. This fool took a medic's life.

 

Dumb-ass, before making pronouncements on subjects you are ignorant of, you go back to primary school and learn to spell ! Nobody gives a shit about your imbecile opinions so stop writing; spare us having to wade through the incoherent bilge that you write !  

Keffer did you know Omar Khadr's dad around the time the Pakistan government threw him in Jail for blowing up the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan?

Whether I knew him or not is none of your business !!

seignet posted:

White ppl better watch the actions of their politicians. Being politically correct will eventually make them into poor ass ppl. 

Imagine a murderer gets 10.5 million dollars. And he such a barefaced prick, he will take the money too. White ppl courts too nice. 

Absolute BS !! What makes him barefaced ? Too many of us have concluded that BBC and CNN are 'so honest' and comprehensive in their reporting and news broadcasts ! Who/what gave the USA the right to invade another sovereign state and decide who, how, when and why the people of that state should be terminated ? Have you ever been to Afghanistan ? Do you know or have you ever spoken to an Afghan about the events that took place in that country ? Why don't you go to Afghanistan or, at minimum, speak to Afghans about what occurred in their country ? More importantly, find out what the USA did to the people of that country.

The issue is this. Only a Jack  like Keffer would want to live under the Taliban

.His behind lives in luxury here off of the fruits of Western capital in retirement. Yet he does not have a clue of the fear women have of the Taliban. 

Keffer your ancestors were Hindu converts to islam. Just remember that. Converted people. So get real.

Keffer posted:

seignet posted:

White ppl better watch the actions of their politicians. Being politically correct will eventually make them into poor ass ppl. 

Imagine a murderer gets 10.5 million dollars. And he such a barefaced prick, he will take the money too. White ppl courts too nice. 

Absolute BS !! What makes him barefaced ? Too many of us have concluded that BBC and CNN are 'so honest' and comprehensive in their reporting and news broadcasts ! Who/what gave the USA the right to invade another sovereign state and decide who, how, when and why the people of that state should be terminated ? Have you ever been to Afghanistan ? Do you know or have you ever spoken to an Afghan about the events that took place in that country ? Why don't you go to Afghanistan or, at minimum, speak to Afghans about what occurred in their country ? More importantly, find out what the USA did to the people of that country.

Well, go back over there and tek dem peace loving ppl wid you. Murderous prick at 15 years old know how to hate and kill ppl on race/religion. Muslim countries gat some hateful policies. Left alone they will kill off each other. Thank goodness for the West. Atleast, they saving some alyuh. Why? I doan know. Maybe, it has something to do with their Christain beliefs.

Prashad posted:

The issue is this. Only a Jack  like Keffer would want to live under the Taliban

.His behind lives in luxury here off of the fruits of Western capital in retirement. Yet he does not have a clue of the fear women have of the Taliban. 

Dingbat, the thoughts of a knit-brained US Army toilet cleaner are completely irrelevant to me. We all know that you are intellectually impoverished so, precisely as I have suggested to you many times previously ... stay with your job of cleaning the shit-houses of your superiors ! You have never been to Afghanistan, you know nothing about that country, its people, its culture, its politics etc. so your feeble lame-brain does not permit you to interpret or understand the ramifications of the politics of that part of the world. Jackass, the right of people to self-determination is enshrined in the charter of the UN so who gives a shit what nit-wit, numb-brained Prashad thinks ! You would not last a single day there so my advice to you once again is to keep your trap shut; you have no concept, no information, no education and no idea whatsoever of the Afghan situation. By their own account, American troops rushed in to a camp and immediately begin shooting and blasting people ! What were they supposed to do ? Bare their chests in front of the invaders and say ' I am here; please come and kill me' ? 

Prashad posted:

The issue is this. Only a Jack  like Keffer would want to live under the Taliban

.His behind lives in luxury here off of the fruits of Western capital in retirement. Yet he does not have a clue of the fear women have of the Taliban. 

seignet posted:

Keffer posted:

seignet posted:

White ppl better watch the actions of their politicians. Being politically correct will eventually make them into poor ass ppl. 

Imagine a murderer gets 10.5 million dollars. And he such a barefaced prick, he will take the money too. White ppl courts too nice. 

Absolute BS !! What makes him barefaced ? Too many of us have concluded that BBC and CNN are 'so honest' and comprehensive in their reporting and news broadcasts ! Who/what gave the USA the right to invade another sovereign state and decide who, how, when and why the people of that state should be terminated ? Have you ever been to Afghanistan ? Do you know or have you ever spoken to an Afghan about the events that took place in that country ? Why don't you go to Afghanistan or, at minimum, speak to Afghans about what occurred in their country ? More importantly, find out what the USA did to the people of that country.

Well, go back over there and tek dem peace loving ppl wid you. Murderous prick at 15 years old know how to hate and kill ppl on race/religion. Muslim countries gat some hateful policies. Left alone they will kill off each other. Thank goodness for the West. Atleast, they saving some alyuh. Why? I doan know. Maybe, it has something to do with their Christain beliefs.

If that is the best response you can come up with, I have to attach the same 'jackass' classification to you that I assigned to Prashad a long time ago. If you do not know the facts, it is better to keep your trap shut; unless of course you have resigned yourself to being another ass-kisser/soup drinker for your masters ! Oh, I see ... the Americans arrived with love in their eyes and the Bible in their hands, eh ! Who gave them the right to invade Afghanistan ? Trump must surely revel in the thought that he has dunces and dingbats like you and Prashad cheering for him ! Why don't you tell the world about what you did in Vietnam, how many did you kill in Iraq ? Let us hear you defend the affirmation of that foul, ugly old bitch Madeleine Albright when, in responding to the deaths of more than a million Iraqi children that resulted from the infamous 'Oil for Food' program that was initiated by the benevolent USA, she brazenly told the world "it was worth the price" !! Despite this and numerous other similar atrocities; you now have the temerity to talk about 'hateful policies' ? You and the dingbat toilet cleaner both belong in a mental asylum !!  

Keffer posted:

Prashad posted:

The issue is this. Only a Jack  like Keffer would want to live under the Taliban

.His behind lives in luxury here off of the fruits of Western capital in retirement. Yet he does not have a clue of the fear women have of the Taliban. 

Dingbat, the thoughts of a knit-brained US Army toilet cleaner are completely irrelevant to me. We all know that you are intellectually impoverished so, precisely as I have suggested to you many times previously ... stay with your job of cleaning the shit-houses of your superiors ! You have never been to Afghanistan, you know nothing about that country, its people, its culture, its politics etc. so your feeble lame-brain does not permit you to interpret or understand the ramifications of the politics of that part of the world. Jackass, the right of people to self-determination is enshrined in the charter of the UN so who gives a shit what nit-wit, numb-brained Prashad thinks ! You would not last a single day there so my advice to you once again is to keep your trap shut; you have no concept, no information, no education and no idea whatsoever of the Afghan situation. By their own account, American troops rushed in to a camp and immediately begin shooting and blasting people ! What were they supposed to do ? Bare their chests in front of the invaders and say ' I am here; please come and kill me' ? With each post you make, you increasingly expose your ignorance and abject stupidity !!

Keffer why are you here and see how the Afghan people will treat your brown behind without your box of dry goods on it. Move to Afghanistan to live. That is the problem with hindu converts. They always have to show other religions that they are better than the real thing. Siggy ignore him.

Prashad posted:

Keffer why are you there and see how the Afghan people will treat your brown behind without your box of dry goods on it. Move to Afghanistan. That is the problem with hindu converts. They always have to show other religions that they are better than the real thing. Siggy ignore him.

Stop writing trash about dry goods, you ignorant dumb-ass; aren't you tired of writing that boring shyte over and over ? If that is your concept of humor, you have failed yet again ! My faith/beliefs are none of your business and therefore not up for discussion. There are toilets to be scrubbed for your white masters... gwan da side, you overgrown jackass ! 

I still don't see why the Canadian Government is paying someone who fought for the Taliban.

Prashad posted:

The issue is this. Only a Jack  like Keffer would want to live under the Taliban

.His behind lives in luxury here off of the fruits of Western capital in retirement. Yet he does not have a clue of the fear women have of the Taliban. 

... unlike you who has to clean toilets from sunrise to sundown for your white masters .... life is a bitch, eh ! You have never been to Afghanistan, you do not know any Afghans, you know nothing of their values, politics, lifestyles, etc ... so, once again I have to suggest that you shut your trap ! I guarantee that loudmouths like you will shit your drawers within minutes if you ever come face to face with Taliban; your best bet is to continue kissing your white masters' asses !!

cain posted:

I still don't see why the Canadian Government is paying someone who fought for the Taliban.

Because, with their help, he was imprisoned by the USA without being charged or convicted for any crime.