Showing posts with label human rightsGreat War on Terror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human rightsGreat War on Terror. Show all posts

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Omar Khadr and Harper's Horror



















Well I see that the tragic case of Omar Khadr is not just shaming our foul Con government, it's also embarrassing the Obama administration. 

The Washington Post reported Saturday that the administration is actively seeking a plea agreement in Khadr’s case, fearful that trying a juvenile will “undermine the validity of military commissions.”

Even though the military commissions are nothing but kangaroo courts.

A U.S. special forces commander testified Saturday that he altered a post-battle report about the firefight where Canadian Omar Khadr was captured to correct his “historical” record, not because he had been pressured to do so.

An early version of Lt. Col. W.’s report stated that the person who had thrown the grenade had been killed, which would rule out Khadr as the suspect.

But in a near-identical report, the commander changed a single line to read that the grenade thrower did not die.

But Lt. Col. W’s testimony conflicts with another March 2004 report written by a commando identified only as OC-1, which states that after the grenade was thrown he shot two fighters – one fatally.

Omar Khadr could not have been the one who threw that grenade.

And this whole shabby case is just an attempt to conceal that the Special Forces soldier was killed by a grenade thrown by one of his own men. Because how else can you explain that Khadr is the only Taliban or Al Qaeda fighter ever charged with murder?

You know I've always wondered how that slight teenager managed to survive his horrifying wounds,the torture, the isolation, the loneliness. It must have been the hope that his own people would rescue him.

So I can only imagine how shattered he must have been when he realized that those callous CSIS agents who interrogated him weren't there to help him.

The day these photos were taken...from the hideous video of his interrogation.















Now I wonder whether he is still resisting the injustice of his situation, by refusing to attend the kangaroo court. Or whether he is finally losing hope, or succumbing to post traumatic depression, after suffering so much.

Or whether the war criminals at Guantanamo are trying to kill him.

Stephen Xenakis, a psychiatrist working with the defence, told reporters he examined Khadr Thursday, and found his condition to include high blood pressure.

``With his history of having the head wounds that he did, shrapnel still in his eyes, the clouding of the lens, a history of surgery - this is a condition that becomes urgent,'' Xenakis said.


And while this unbearable and never ending human rights horror story continues, I also wonder why Stephen Harper isn't capable of doing  the right thing, and bringing this young Canadian home immediately...instead of prolonging his suffering.

Which in turn makes me wonder what is this cold, inhuman man who seems to enjoy the pain of others, is hiding about torture in Afghanistan? What has he done?

Because you know it's got to be MONSTROUS...















One week from now Canada will be on the edge of a constitutional crisis...and maybe even an election.


And this is how I want Canadians to think of him. So we can defeat him like we must.

Because this man is EVIL...