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Canada: Mommie Dearest, Khadr Family anticipate viewing video of Guantanamo Son
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by Barry Artiste | July 15, 2008 at 04:52 am
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Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor
Certainly some who espouse terrorism, as Citizens of Convenience, once caught flee safely to the warm democratic busom of Canada, a Democracy they were taught to destroy by all means possible.
Before you read the rest of my story, read the link below to get a better understanding of this family, then come back and read the rest of my Opinion piece.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/khadr/
What Mother sends not one, but two teenagers, from the safety and security of Canada, sends both her teens to go to a al qaeda terrorist training camp, and upon graduation, sends them off and fight in Pakistan or Afghanistan. I ask you what kind of Mother is this? In Canada where hitting your kid on the ass for misbehaving can result in child services taking your kid away. But for some reason, it is okay to send your kid to Afghanistan to kill innocents? Boy Politicians and the Public seem to have short memories, so I am writing this Opinion piece to refresh everyones memory on the background of Mommie Dearest and their Family.
Mommie Dearest Maha Elsamnah says she feels a deep loss for her son, yeah, but on the other hand, that deep loss, seems to be that he got caught in the first place, as she and her family sent him as a 13 year old teen, as well as his 15 year old brother to al qaeda training camp. What mother sends their child to engage in a war? Hence why I do not buy her "I feel a loss for my son" Crap!
See the photo of her other son in the wheelchair? Guess what? Mommie sent him off at 13 years old,as well as her other 15 year old son to engage Pakistani military forces in a firefight, and when he got shot, Mommie Dearest Hightailed it back to Canada to get her son medical help. Medical help once it was known how her son got hurt, enraged Canadians fed up with people like her who use Canadian Citizenship as a Convenience, cause you sure as shooting know, if Pakistani forces would have caught them, one can be sure they would not be walking around the streets. Now again, I ask you what Mother willingly sends her kids out to kill others? HELLO PEOPLE "WAKE THE F**K UP!"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/khadr/family/canada.html
With the release of the interrogation video of Omar Khadr, the family wait to view a video of their son, imprisoned in Guantanamo for the last few years. A poll taken by Canadians on a CBC Web Poll whether to repatriate Omar Khadr back home to Canada, was met with a Majority who stated with a resounding NO! The Poll should have said, should the mother be allowed near her kid if he is ever released. Hell NO!
Many will disagree with this, mainly lefty politicians, who on the other hand seem to overlook the fact, the mother of Omar Khadr, willingly let her son attend al Qaeda training camps, let her sons join in firefights against US forces, in which her own family members were killed. As a Coup de Grace in all this, Omar Khadr, who as a teen certainly knows right from wrong was accused of lobbing a grenade at a US soldier, a non combatant, a Medic, killing him. Thus depriving this soldier and his family of their freedom of life, land, liberty. A freedom the US will ensure Omar Khadr will never see, and Canadians agree. Though again, the mother should be the one in prison, and having her living in Canada, insults us all as Canadians.
The media state the following about the Khadr family:
The Khadrs were once personal friends of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, a relationship fostered by the family patriarch.
In a TV interview several years ago, Elsamnah angered Canadians by expressing sympathy for al-Qaida, but said yesterday that shouldn't cloud the suffering inflicted on her teenage son.
Below is another tasty tidbit link of info on Mommie Dearest Khadr, while on her supposedly Humanitarian jaunts to the Middle East, Mommie Dearest Khadr was a frequent visitor to Passport Canada, seems every time Mommie would leave Canada, she would conveniently lose her Canadian Passport every time and demand a new one. Passport Canada (Not born yesterday) finally told her no more passports for you! Yeah, those who feel sorry for this family, certainly need to give their "Heads a Big F**king Shake!"
Again, I ask you, in a Society, where hitting your child for having a temper tantrum, can result in child protective services taking your kid away for child abuse. Smacks of idiocy when a Mother like this is allowed to keep her kids.
If Khadr is ever released, one condition is Mommie Dearest should take his place in Gitmo, that is where She as the real guilty party belongs. -As any Parent would say, they would gladly trade places with any of their kids if offered, one wonders if this Mother would do the same? Hell No, of course she wouldn't!
So before you comment on my story here, remember one thing, what Mother sends their kids off to kill or be killed. Do you really buy this bleeding heart story from her? Do you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maha_Elsamnah
http://videos.canoe.ca/index.jsp?fr_story=bf13b79cd8ffb54fcfd18c9991483e6501cb7ea2
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/07/15/6159001-sun.html
Khadr mom waits for tape
Mother 'scared to see' video of interrogation today
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO -- The mother of Omar Khadr, who has spent nearly six years behind bars in Guantanamo Bay for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, was bracing herself yesterday for the spectacle of her son's jailhouse interrogation at the hands of Canada's spy agency.
Maha Elsamnah told The Canadian Press she doesn't know if she'll be able to bear to watch the seven-hour video of the interrogation, which was conducted in February 2003 -- just six months after the 15-year-old Khadr was badly injured in a firefight with American troops.
"I'm a mother -- I'm scared to see it," an emotional Elsamnah said in an interview.
"I hope I can gather all my strength. It's not something nice to see. I hope I can handle it."
The release of the video, expected today, comes amid fresh accounts of abuse the Canadian teen suffered at the hands of his American captors that appear to have finally touched a nerve in Canada.
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at 07:37 on July 15th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Great article. You've spared me the need to add any invective to the debate. Spot on
at 19:59 on July 15th, 2008
I believe you are not objective here at all Barry! He is first of all a child, and still a teen today, second he is allegedly guilty no prove exist against him only suspicions!
Does a child have to pay for the crimes of his father? I think not! Canada always rejects its Citizen if those are no longer convenient or give bad press, look at Ben Johnson, as he was a hero and gold medalist, Canada acclaimed him as a great Canadian, once he was fund guilty of doping he suddenly was a bad Jamaican. Speaks volumes about Canada and it aptitude towards its immigrants of the first and second generation! Should make any Canadian immigrant feel real secure and patriotic!
at 21:37 on July 15th, 2008
You know a lot of what you say is true. I may not be totally objective here granted. But a Mother who willingly sends their kids to be sacrificed, smacks of her contempt for her own children in which she has no right to raise. Omar should have been given the chance to go to school, and be a normal teen, instead she and her hubby deprived him of school and a life and put a gun in his child hands and said go out and kill. As I said Mommie should be in jail, not the kid
at 22:13 on July 15th, 2008
You all seem to overlook the FACT here! This is about the Mother, NOT THE KID! The Kid of course brainwashed, not just by al qaeda, but by a kid who loved his Mother, a Mother not fit to walk this earth for what she did to her kids. This stuff Moon your babbling about me Saying the kid should rot in jail is lost on me, I dont see where I ever said this?
at 21:53 on July 15th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
You may correct Barry! I did over look it! As far as the Mother goes she should be in Jail, however not the child!
at 21:55 on July 15th, 2008
Moon and Paschen, first of all did you really, really understand what this story is all about, cause I do not think you do! You are all talking about the kid, when the story and title clearly state the Mother. So do me a favour and cut and paste from my story where I say the kid is guilty and where I am not objective. Make sure now, you cut and paste my words, not those of the media.
at 22:03 on July 15th, 2008
Thanks Paschen for the validation and comments. Certainly in a society, where leaving a child in a locked car gets media attention and the parents are vilified, yet in this case with Khadrs Mommie, the Canadian people are mute on the subject when you deprive your 13 and 14 year old kids of a childhood and school and put a gun in their hand for allah. Apparently Moon thinks this is okay to do!
at 22:05 on July 15th, 2008
The kid is 15. Isn't it his rights we're debating and not those of his mother? What difference does it make what she thinks? A 15 year old boy is being held in a prisoner of war camp. That seems wrong to me no matter how crazy his family is.
at 22:06 on July 15th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff. Good staoy as always. What is it with people. The Kid in Gitmos is one story and this is another. The other thing is the news keeps calling the militant that killed one of MY OWN a medic who trained in the 232 nd Brigade at Ft Sam Houston TX. My Unit when I was in the Army. No if this child as they call him killed the American child and offer him a cheese burger and a coke. Is that tourture. I tell you what tourture is, to be in the desert at over 130 degrees, eating MREs carring 80 pound ruck sacks to protect the western way of life before the war come to America. This child as the news calls him killed a united states soldier, someones son, someones brother. I just get burned that teheir is more compassion for an enemy combatant then our own soldiers, What if the dead soldier was your child. You'd get him an warm blanket I suppose.
at 22:07 on July 15th, 2008
I agree. I think it is shameful that any country would put children in jail. This child is in need of help not interrogation! Have you no humanity?
at 22:09 on July 15th, 2008
Grammer check please -- for the sake of the reader as well as your own credibility. Thanks.
at 22:13 on July 15th, 2008
Barry, In the south not only do you loose you kids if you leave them in a car. if you leave your dog (which I would never do) you go to jail and losse your animals
at 22:14 on July 15th, 2008
Thanks Garth for the voice of reason
at 22:17 on July 15th, 2008
Some who have never served overseas and seen what we have seen, certainly are lost on the concept of compassion, when only one side agrees to the terms of engagement. Especially when it comes to compassion for the family of the medic.
Thanks for the comments Al and the flag.
at 22:20 on July 15th, 2008
Actually the kid is now almost 20, and this story is about the fitness of the mother, and her pitful "My heart Aches sob story" there are other stories in Now Public on Omar Khadrs in Gitmo, this is not one of them.
Thanks for the comments Garth
at 22:24 on July 15th, 2008
Garth, I appreciate your desire to bring grammar up to your standard but please don't do this for all to see in the comments section. If you are concerned about ones credibility, you could use the private email system. many of us go back and fix my mistakes after they rant. Please focus on the content of what is being said and forget the red pen. many of us are poor in some areas as you may be as well. Lets focus on the issue in Barry's article, rather then nit picking about inabilities.
at 22:22 on July 15th, 2008
Thank god the kids and pets in the south are not children of Khadrs , then it is okay apparently.
at 22:24 on July 15th, 2008
Again, some here are confusing the story here with Khadr, when it clearly states the Mother, even the title states it, I really am at a loss for words here. I do not know how I can make this story clearer!
at 22:26 on July 15th, 2008
Barry, as always you make me think and look inward to where I can be a better man. Your such the mentor. I hope that one day we can have a cup of coffee and fix all the world problems in one setting.
at 22:30 on July 15th, 2008
Thanks Al, much appreciated of the comments. If ever you are in BC, or if I ever find myself in the Carolinas, I would surely like to meet.
As for fixing world problems, the would be nice, but when many are out there blocking attempts feeling common decency is not politically correct, there is no way of reasoning with those who have no reason.
at 04:57 on July 16th, 2008
Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:03 on July 16th, 2008
Thanks Caoimhin, Much appreciated my friend
at 05:58 on July 16th, 2008
Where was the father in all this?
at 06:04 on July 16th, 2008
This isn't about a "kid." He's an enemy combatant. It's too darned bad that his culture, religion, and apparently, his family, sent him off for terrorist training and to war, but once he engaged in war, he became exactly what they wanted him to be: a terrorist and enemy combatant. If he were say, say, 10, I'd have a slightly different viewpoint. But crime studies have shown that some of the most dangerous people in the world are males from 14 on up, and it may be down to 13 by now. His culture and family did this to him, too darned late to boo hoo over him. What, should they send him back so they can send him out again to do the same thing?
And he cried. Not unusual in interrogations of youthful offenders, just in terms of crime, not war. Besides, they soon learn-crying works to get pity and sympathy. As far as being tortured--he's fed, safe, warm, dry, and alive. More than what his family and culture gave him.
at 06:40 on July 16th, 2008
Daddums sucked up a few rounds to the turban courtesy of Pakistani forces
at 06:43 on July 16th, 2008
You know as tragic as it sounds, Omar is in better hands with his Captors than he ever was with his family, who sent him over there, most likely would have preferred him a martyr in a firefight. At least in gitmo, he is alive to tell his story, certainly a story Mommie Dearest wishes he would keep mum about.
at 07:00 on July 16th, 2008
Actually Pep, he is both a child and enemy combatant. Dangerous? Perhaps. Brainswashed? Maybe. Victim of horrible parenting? Most certainly. But a child all the same.
at 14:29 on July 16th, 2008
I agree brainwashed and abused by parents in which who knows if he will ever recover, He has grade school education, thanks to Mommie, no social skills, the list goes on, the kid is going to need more counselling if released for many, many, many years to come. If released into his mothers care and their doctrine, chances of his survival will be slim to none in society.
at 20:00 on July 23rd, 2008
We did prepare our children to go to war and fight... Vimy, Hong Kong.... and most Canadians have no clue as to where and how they died...
Empathy for a fundamentalist fanatic who wants her children to die?
Invaders? Okay the US invaded Iraq, ulterior motives most likely.
Canada Invade Afghanistan? For what? King? Empire? Oil? Hash!!
Canada has no desire to take or hold Afghan territory, no desire to kill for the sake of killing and no desire to rape Afghans of their meager assets. They do have the desire to at least establish an environment where Afghans can live with out fear of Fundamentalist Muslims that are so out of touch with reality that they deserve to disappear.
I am and continue to be replused by the fact that we can't excrete the Khadrs from this country in the manner they deserve...
at 21:14 on July 23rd, 2008
First of all the Kid is not 15, he is now 21 years old. Still for someone to grow up as a teen in prison thanks to his Mommie is tragic.