Despite 40-year sentence, Khadr (Gitmo terrorist) likely to go home in a year (US deal)

McClatchy/Miami Herald ^ | Nov. 1, 2010 | Carol Rosenberg

[SmartInsight]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — A military jury on Sunday gave teen terrorist Omar Khadr a 40-year prison sentence for killing an American commando in Afghanistan, but the sentence was merely symbolic — the United States already had agreed to limit Khadr's prison time to eight years, and Canada last week said it would allow Khadr to serve the bulk of his sentence there.

That agreement will allow Khadr to be released from prison by age 32, if not earlier under Canadian parole provisions.

The Toronto-born Khadr also admitted that, in the days ahead of his capture, he planted mines intended to maim or kill U.S. and allied forces. He was captured near dead, treated by U.S. forces and sent to Guantanamo soon after his 16th birthday.

[piasa]

The question is why does Obama care about a teen terrorist more than our country?

The kid's father was tied to a Chicago terror charity called Benevolence International with ties to Iraq; some of the figures associated with that were also seekers of uranium. This charity was in turn involved financially with the terror charities Global Relief [also of the Chicago area] and Help the Needy [of upstate NY] which was involved with IANA and Human Concern Intl.

Our gov seems to have an allergy to any cases involving Iraq, Chicago and uranium.

1998 : (BIF PROVIDES DIRECT LOGISTICAL SUPPORT TO AL QAEDA'S M M SALIM aka ABU HAJER AL-IRAQI , A FORMER IRAQI SOLDIER AN A BOARDMEMBER OF BIF --- See WMD, CHEMICAL WARFARE, TABA INVESTMENTS [see IIS, IRAQI HIKMAT SHAKIR], BATTERJEE)

[piasa]

[Omar]Khadr’s father, Egyptian-born and Canadian citizen Ahmed Said Khadr, generated enough public pressure in 1996 to convince prime minister Jean Chrétien to intervene when he was facing charges in Pakistan in connection with the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad. He died in a battle in Pakistan in October 2003. ————Mounties uncover Al Qaeda cache
Toronto Star ^ | Jun. 14, 2005 | MICHELLE SHEPHARD

[Bill ORightsly]

I got back from GTMO last night on the OMC flight. I sat through all 7 days of the trial (Mon-Sun).

It was a travesty in every way.