Juno News - December 12, 2018Omar Khadr wants bail restrictions gone. What could possibly go wrong？
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It's not enough that Canadians were on the hook for paying $10.5 million to convicted terrorist and murderer Omar Khadr. Now, Canadians are expected to completely forget about what happened, it seems. That's what Khadr is arguing for in court this week.
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It's not enough that Canadians were on the hook for 10.5 million dollars to
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convicted terrorist and murderer Omar Khadr, authorized by Justin Trudeau's
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government. Now Canadians are expected to completely forget about what happened
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it seems. That's what Omar Khadr is arguing for in court this week. He wants
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easing of his bail restrictions to do two things. Number one, get a Canadian
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passport so he can travel to Saudi Arabia, which we know is a country that
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has never ever had anything to do with terrorism of any kind, right? Something
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like that? Well anyway, and the other thing he wants to do is be able to have
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unsupervised contact with his older sister and her family, Zainab Khadr. Now
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normally a boy wanting to talk to his sister might not seem like that radical
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an idea, except there's a distinct problem. The Khadr family does not have an
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anomaly in Omar as far as the terrorists go, it's a family of radicals. His
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father was a top Al-Qaeda financier, they were all friends with the Bin Ladens and
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Zainab Khadr, his older sister, is an unapologetic Islamist herself. She is a
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supporter of Al-Qaeda, she years ago actually said she was proud of Omar Khadr
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for throwing the grenade that killed Sergeant Christopher Speer and she also
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is a very devoted supporter of Bin Laden, who she calls the great martyr. So for
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Omar Khadr to want to have unsupervised contact with her, this is something that
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goes against what Khadr has said previously, which is that he cannot be
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held responsible for the sins of his father and the sins of his sister. Khadr
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said this, he said that you know he's different than them, he is not his sister,
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he's not his father and Canadians should look at him and just him on his own, but
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now he's wanting to go on pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia while he's still on bail and
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have interactions with the family members that were responsible for his
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radicalization in the first place. Now we don't yet know if a judge is going to
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authorize this, unfortunately I fear this is going to be a certainty because well
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every time Omar Khadr has asked for something he's gotten it, whether it's been
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from the courts or from Justin Trudeau's Liberals. But what is gonna happen here is
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Canadians are going to be forced once again to see that you can actually be a
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terrorist who kills a soldier in a battlefield, confesses to it, and
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ultimately get a pass. For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.