Posted on 05/05/2003 3:45:52 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien recently vacationed in the Dominican Republic, where he teed off with former U.S. president Bill Clinton in the Soft-on-Terror Masters Tournament.
While Chrétien golfs, his fellow countryman and favorite accused terrorist Ahmad Said Khadr still is on the loose.
Khadr, an Egyptian-born Canadian citizen, is considered by intelligence officials to be the highest-ranking Canadian within Osama bin Laden's inner circle. He studied computer science at the University of Ottawa and worked for an Ottawa-based Islamic charity, Human Concern International, which Chrétien's government generously subsidized.
Khadr is suspected of diverting charity funds to bin Laden and other jihadists, and of serving as a chief terrorist recruiter. Known as al-Kanadi (Arabic for "the Canadian"), Khadr previously had been in custody in Pakistan for the 1995 bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad that killed 17 people.
As I've noted before (and it is especially worth repeating in light of attempts by some high-ranking U.S. diplomats to make amends with Canada), our so-called friend and supposed war-on-terror partner Chrétien was instrumental in securing Khadr's freedom.
Chrétien personally intervened on behalf of Khadr during a 1996 state visit to Pakistan, aggressively seeking guarantees from Benazir Bhutto, then the country's prime minister, that Khadr would receive due process and fair treatment. The suspected Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist was released shortly after Chrétien's diplomatic lobbying campaign.
The United Nations, United States and Canada (last, of course) since have frozen the fugitive Khadr's assets due to his suspected ties to bin Laden. One of his sons, an al-Qaeda operative and former terror-training-camp commander, is on the run with Khadr.
Another of Khadr's sons, 16-year-old Omar, is in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay for his alleged role in an ambush of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan last summer. Omar is accused of lobbing the hand grenade that killed Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, a 28-year-old medic with the U.S. Special Forces. "That wasn't a panicky teen-ager we encountered that day," Sgt. 1st Class Layne Morris of South Jordan, Utah, who lost his right eye in the ambush, told the Boston Globe in March. "That was a trained al-Qaeda who wanted to make his last act on Earth the killing of an American.''
Chrétien's government, naturally, is pleading for leniency in Omar Khadr's case.
While Chrétien golfs, another fellow countryman and suspected terrorist, Al Rauf Bin Al Habib Bin Yousef Al-Jiddi, also remains on the loose. Al-Jiddi is a Tunisian-born Canadian citizen from Montreal who vowed to become a martyr in the "war against the infidels." The suicide threats were recorded on a videotape found at an al-Qaeda safe house in Afghanistan owned by bin Laden's military chief, Mohammed Atef.
Al-Jiddi has been linked to a Canadian-based al-Qaeda cell that included Ahmed Ressam, the Algerian terrorist plotter nabbed by U.S. Customs officials at the Canadian border in Washington state with a car full of explosives intended for use in a bombing attack at Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium celebration.
While Chrétien golfs, counterterrorism officials estimate that al-Qaeda has roughly 75 operatives on the loose in Canada and the country remains an operations base for at least 50 international terrorist organizations - many of whose members have gained Canadian citizenship thanks to Chrétien's chronically lax refugee and asylum policies.
While Chrétien golfs, Canada remains a magnet for jihadists and a breeding ground for anti-American terrorism. Yet, the Bush administration plans to exempt Canadian citizens from our federal law requiring a system to track all entries to and exits from the United States by 2005. The Toronto Globe and Mail reports that "The Chrétien government has lobbied hard for such an exemption, saying it is needed to keep people and commerce flowing freely across the border."
Chrétien has undermined America's national-security efforts every step of the way. Why do we continue to serve as caddies for his terror-friendly agenda?
Yes it also is needed so that the flow of illegal immigrants
(mainly from China)
can continue to enter the USA
across the NY border
(which they still do, I understand, at the rate of several hundred a month)
I despise that freak. Creten, I mean. In Omar's culture, for all intents and purposes, he was an adult - a man, not a boy - for three years when he lobbed the grenade. He expected no quartr. He gave none. He deserves none.
So it is with the Canadians, building their identity on being "better than the Americans." It's a very poor thing to do, and keeps them from accomplishing what they want.
Not all Canadians are like this, of course, but an awful lot of them are.
I certainly hope not. At least, I HOPE the 'profiling' of Arab-Canadians travelling across the border into the US carrying a bunch of hommade M-80s hidden with their billyclubs continues and even INCREASES.
Why wasn't the little bastard shot on the spot...
How was it that he became a prisoner, after such an attack?
It's not too late to kill the hateful little bastard now --- no forgiveness after murdering an American and seriously wounding others...
Kill the bastard, now.
Semper Fi
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