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'No real alternative' to Khadr handling: PM
by Barbara McPherson | July 10, 2008 at 05:33 am | 149 views | add comment | 0 recommendations
Explosive new documents suggest Canada was aware of the harsh treatment that Canadian terror suspect Omar Khadr was being subjected to in Guantanamo Bay at the hands of U.S. military interrogators.
"This really shows the assurances the U.S. government has been providing to the Canadian government for all these years have been false, and at least since 2004 the Canadian government knew it was false."
The Toronto-born terror suspect is accused of throwing a grenade in 2002 in Afghanistan that killed a U.S. special forces soldier.
Khadr, 15 at the time, was captured and eventually sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he has remained ever since.
The prime minister's office appears to be dragging its feet regarding this casualty of war. By UN standards, Khadr is a child soldier. The US government has held him in the offshore prison in Cuba for over five years now. There is credible doubt about his involvement in the death of a US medic. It is time for both the governments to start telling the truth about his incarceration and torture.
One report says Khadr was moved every three hours for 21 days -- a technique known as the 'frequent flyer program' -- in an attempt to deprive him of sleep and weaken his ability to withstand interrogation.
And a U.S. Air Force report from February 2003 says Khadr
wasn't allowed to receive mail from his family in Canada.
When he was finally given a letter from his grandmother, agents watched secretly as the young man broke down in tears.
July 10, 2008 at 05:33 am by Barbara McPherson, 149 views, add comment
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