1. “Within seconds,” said Capt. Mike Silver, who walked into the compound behind Sgt. Speer, “we had him [Omar] pinpointed and we opened fire.” Shot three times in the chest, Khadr dropped the pistol he was carrying, and when Capt. Silver approached him, called out, “Shoot me. Please, just shoot me.” Although a sergeant who was present noted later that “every US soldier who walked by Omar longed to put a bullet in his head,” the unit’s medic insisted on patching him up. It was an act of kindness that has rarely been repeated in the five years and four months since.
FACT: He was shot twice in the back.
USA – Confirming its disregard for the rights of children, the administration proceeded, in November 2005, to designate Omar as one of ten Guantánamo detainees to be tried by Military Commission. Under this new process, dreamed up by Dick Cheney and his senior counsel David Addington in November 2001, the detainees could be tried –- and even sentenced to death –- using secret evidence that would never be revealed to either the detainees or their government-appointed defense lawyers.
FACT: Secret evidence means lying.
FINALLY:
Omar’s lawyers, Muneer Ahmad and Rick Wilson, who run the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University, first visited him in October 2004, following a crucial ruling in the Supreme Court in June 2004, when, in a landmark case, Rasul v. Bush, the Justices ruled by 6 to 3 that the detainees had the right to challenge the legal limbo in which they had been held for nearly two and half years, demolishing, along the way, the administration’s long-cherished belief that Guantánamo did not count as US territory.
FACT: Anyone born in Guantanamo Bay, just like born in Panama would be considered American. If not they would be Cuban and subject to Cuba law.
CANADIAN LIARS: CSIS, the Canadian CIA imitator, interrogated Omar Khadr for four days. Omar Khadr was only 16 years old. The CSIS interrogator continually pressured Khadr to tell them where his mother and sibling were. They tried to convince the overwhelmed Khadr that Canada was trying to protect the Khadr family and bring them back to Canada for ‘rehabilitation’ of some sort. Khadr was advised that if Khadr didn’t cooperated his family could face torture.
KILL LEGALLY: Lt.C. Ralph Peters on Omar Khadr Gitmo Tape: “We should have killed that punk on a battlefield where it was legal to do so!” Actually it would not have been legal to do so because you’re not allowed to kill wounded soldiers. There is video of Americans doing just that and this is positive evidence of War Crime that is expected from all American soldiers and mercenaries. Mercenaries are illegal combatants.
Why do Americans get so pissed off when their soldiers get killed in war? Perhaps they should quit starting war.
GRENADE: Lt.C. Ralph Peters on Omar Khadr Gitmo Tape: “We should have killed that punk on a battlefield where it was legal to do so!” Actually it would not have been legal to do so because you’re not allowed to kill wounded soldiers. There is video of Americans doing just that and this is positive evidence of War Crime that is expected from all American soldiers and mercenaries. Mercenaries are illegal combatants.
FACT: Khadr was shot IN THE BACK previous to the throwing of the grenade that killed the American commando. Probably thrown by an American. They’re always killing people ‘accidentally’.
CANADIAN LIAR: Yet, after 7 plus years Prime Minister Harper, after two court decisions to repatriate Khadr, has refused to budge and now wants to refer the case to the Supreme Court of Canada. Is our Prime Minister an American puppet?
FACT: Khadr was a child and should have been immediately taken back to Canada.
FINNISH: Amir Attaran, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, called the tribunal a “kangaroo court”. And this is so true. The lawyers fit in well as kangaroos not knowing what has really happened and are playing out this game for their own sakes and not with any sense of justice. Omar Khadr, a child who has grown to adulthood in the extremely vexing nature of an American captive hidden away on a part of Cuba and subjected to vile tortures and never allowed to speak with anyone he knows. There is an extreme injustice here and not only by the Americans but by Canadians that won’t look at the details and defend one of their own. Let it also be known that Omar Khadr was a child soldier and in our western world there has been no prosecution of a child soldier since the 18th century.
The question becomes, Mr Wolf, whether or not Americans follow the law or that you believe that Americans are above the law.
Since you have agreed that America holds no value for the law than the question becomes moot.
I see why Mr Wolfe is blocked. He’s blocked everyone else. What an a**!
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