Omar Khadr and the Smoking Grenade

After years of watching American Justice I figure I'm a pretty good amateur detective. But I have to admit that at the beginning I was stumped by the Case of Omar Khadr.

If he was the only one in the smoking ruins of the compound....after it was bombed and strafed by American planes....as the Pentagon said he was. How could he have thrown the grenade that killed that Special Forces soldier?

When he must have been in agony from serious shrapnel wounds to his body, head and eyes. And he was just a puny teenager.

Then the Pentagon was forced to change its story. It turned out there was another adult Taliban fighter still alive in the compound who could have thrown the fatal grenade. So I assumed that's what really happened.

But now comes another shocking twist in the plot of this ghastly horror story.

What if that American soldier was killed by so called friendly fire?

Omar Khadr's defence team says it has expert testimony indicating the soldier he is accused of killing died as a result of injuries inflicted by an American grenade.

In a report expected soon, one expert will say that Sgt. Speer's injuries are consistent with the types of wounds that fragments of an American- made grenade would have caused. The conclusion of another expert corroborates that finding, Lt.-Cmdr. Kuebler says.

It is also believed that only the U.S. soldiers who stormed the compound were armed with American-made grenades.

Wouldn't that be the smoking grenade?

That might explain EVERYTHING.

Now it wouldn't just be another Death in Afghanistan mystery. And a hideous tale of the torture, abuse, and neglect of a Canadian child soldier.

Now it would also be a Pentagon COVER-UP. Which would make what they did to Omar....while nobody in Canada lifted a finger to help him.... even more obscene.













At Bagram, he was repeatedly brought into interrogation rooms on stretchers, in great pain. Pain medication was withheld, apparently to induce cooperation. He was ordered to clean floors on his hands and knees while his wounds were still wet. When he could walk again, he was forced to stand for hours at a time with his hands tied above a door frame. Interrogators put a bag over his head and held him still while attack dogs leapt at his chest. Sometimes he was kept chained in an interrogation room for so long he urinated on himself.

And Guantanamo was even worse.

You know.... for the sake of everyone. For the sake of the brotherhood of the Special Forces. For the sake of the decent soldier who died. For the sake of all Canadians.....especially the 38 per cent who believe the Guantanamo Kid should stay in Guantanamo.

Because history will judge them harshly. Just like it will judge our country for ignoring the U.N. Protocol on child soldiers...that we were the FIRST to sign.

Omar Khadr should be brought home to be treated and rehabilitated not punished.

And the sooner the better...

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P.S. Dear Muslims Against Sharia.....I appreciate that you are the only people who ever comment on my Khadr posts. But I have to say I would much rather have no comments than read your extreme and bloodthirsty views about Muslims. And endure your completely wrongheaded approach to winning the war on terrorism and religious extremism, to which I am committed.So please don't bother sending anymore. Thanks.