Well who in Canada pissed and moaned to us in the US to let you have him?? You could have ask us to use a rope or firing Sq on your nation's behalf. Fee for Canada, free no charge= Good neighbor policies.
The Americans recognized he was a child soldier, and told us to take him back or they'd set him free. Then he could come back a free Canadian citizen with a good legal case against the Canadian Government.
Now he's still in prison, but with a good legal case against the Canadian Government.
U.S. looks for way to return KhadrNo stomach to try child for war crimes: insiderNEW YORK - Officials in the Obama administration are quietly seeking a way to repatriate Canadian-born terror suspect Omar Khadr, an authority in a position to know has confided to Canwest News Service.
"They don't have the stomach to try a child for war crimes," said the source, who declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of such a U.S. bid.
Mr. Khadr's age of 15 at the time of the alleged offences is playing on the minds of certain administration officials -- especially those with backgrounds in the type of activism that has clashed with some of the more controversial U.S. anti-terror efforts, the source said.
Samantha Power, Michael Posner and Harold Koh are among administration officials with the strongest backgrounds in human-rights study and activism.
For example, Mr. Posner, the assistant secretary of state, was founding executive director of Human Rights First, which has advocated Mr. Khadr's repatriation as one alternative to his continued prosecution in the military system established at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
But even those seeking to return Mr. Khadr to Canada don't feel the United States can make the first move. They want Ottawa to ask for the return of Mr. Khadr so that the Obama administration has "political cover" to dodge any domestic backlash resulting from the release of an accused terrorist from the U.S. justice system.
"There are political repercussions," the source said. So administration officials are "looking for a Canadian [outreach]."
The officials' determination to explore what "we can do" is nevertheless there, the source said. The United States "would like to send him back."
The U.S. Department of Justice declined to comment on the issue.
"Omar Khadr has been referred for [a] military commission prosecution," said Dean Boyd, spokesman in the department's National Security Division. "I have no comment for you on whether or not there are any discussions between the United States or Canada regarding Omar Khadr's case."
The government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has long publicly maintained it will not seek Mr. Khadr's return, saying he faces serious charges in the United States that need to be addressed.
After rejecting at least two repatriation and rehabilitation plans proposed by Mr. Khadr's Canadian lawyers, the government also won key Canadian Supreme Court backing in January for maintaining its refusal to ask Washington to give him up.
Mr. Khadr faces five war crimes charges before the military commission system created under the presidency of George W. Bush. Among them is murder in the death of Delta Force Sergeant Chris Speer, who was fatally wounded by a hand grenade that Mr. Khadr allegedly tossed during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan.
U.S. military prosecutors, who have said they will not seek the death penalty in the event Mr. Khadr is convicted, have insisted his age at the time of the firefight is relevant only as a mitigating factor at a sentencing hearing.
Insiders say the prosecutors have signalled they'd seek a "decent number" of years of imprisonment that would well exceed the current time served -- but would be short of the maximum life sentence he could face if found guilty.
Sgt. Speer's widow, Tabitha, is also expected to testify at any sentencing hearing. His death left her alone to raise their two young children.
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