Juno News - December 12, 2018


Omar Khadr wants bail restrictions gone. What could possibly go wrong？

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Andrew Lutton
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Omar Khadr Zainab Khadr Justin Trudeau Sergeant Christopher Spear Bin Ladens Bin Laden
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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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00:00:00.000 It's not enough that Canadians were on the hook for 10.5 million dollars to
00:00:03.960 convicted terrorist and murderer Omar Khadr, authorized by Justin Trudeau's
00:00:08.400 government. Now Canadians are expected to completely forget about what happened
00:00:13.560 it seems. That's what Omar Khadr is arguing for in court this week. He wants
00:00:18.040 easing of his bail restrictions to do two things. Number one, get a Canadian
00:00:22.240 passport so he can travel to Saudi Arabia, which we know is a country that
00:00:26.280 has never ever had anything to do with terrorism of any kind, right? Something
00:00:32.580 like that? Well anyway, and the other thing he wants to do is be able to have
00:00:36.540 unsupervised contact with his older sister and her family, Zainab Khadr. Now
00:00:41.340 normally a boy wanting to talk to his sister might not seem like that radical
00:00:45.360 an idea, except there's a distinct problem. The Khadr family does not have an
00:00:50.520 anomaly in Omar as far as the terrorists go, it's a family of radicals. His 0.91
00:00:55.500 father was a top Al-Qaeda financier, they were all friends with the Bin Ladens and 1.00
00:01:00.780 Zainab Khadr, his older sister, is an unapologetic Islamist herself. She is a 1.00
00:01:06.660 supporter of Al-Qaeda, she years ago actually said she was proud of Omar Khadr
00:01:12.600 for throwing the grenade that killed Sergeant Christopher Speer and she also
00:01:16.440 is a very devoted supporter of Bin Laden, who she calls the great martyr. So for
00:01:23.380 Omar Khadr to want to have unsupervised contact with her, this is something that
00:01:28.420 goes against what Khadr has said previously, which is that he cannot be
00:01:32.440 held responsible for the sins of his father and the sins of his sister. Khadr
00:01:37.100 said this, he said that you know he's different than them, he is not his sister,
00:01:41.980 he's not his father and Canadians should look at him and just him on his own, but
00:01:46.480 now he's wanting to go on pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia while he's still on bail and
00:01:52.000 have interactions with the family members that were responsible for his
00:01:56.140 radicalization in the first place. Now we don't yet know if a judge is going to
00:02:00.280 authorize this, unfortunately I fear this is going to be a certainty because well
00:02:05.080 every time Omar Khadr has asked for something he's gotten it, whether it's been
00:02:09.300 from the courts or from Justin Trudeau's Liberals. But what is gonna happen here is
00:02:13.720 Canadians are going to be forced once again to see that you can actually be a
00:02:17.680 terrorist who kills a soldier in a battlefield, confesses to it, and
00:02:22.540 ultimately get a pass. For the True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lutton.