Posted on 07/19/2005 11:03:05 AM PDT by Alexander Rubin
Toronto-- Only Hollywood would try to make a hero of a terrorist in the triple terrorist Osama bin Laden-connected Khadr family.
Waiting to be cast as the quintessential bad boy turned good, Abdurahman Khadr is the tin star in a family of anti-American steel, and tin can be easily bent.
The June 5 edition of Variety reports that a movie deal is in the making about the 21-year-old lapsed terrorist’s life. As a 13-year-old terrorist-in-training, Khadr stood face to face with his idol Osama bin Laden in 1996.
But somewhere along the road back to his family in Toronto after a holdover at Guantanamo Bay prison, Abdurahman found an epiphany.
Like so many of the gunslingers of Hollywood fame, who traded in pistols for life on the ranch, Abdurahman gave up the terrorist’s life to return to the bosom of his family.
But it’s a family not even Paramount Pictures, who enlisted Oscar-nominated screenwriter Keir Pearson to turn Abdurahman’s story into a script, can romanticize.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
I wonder if this makes him the white sheep or black sheep of his family...
Isn't this the guy who was secretly flown into Bosnia, and then quit the mission?
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