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Lawyer begs ex-Cuban detainee to return to Canada
The lawyer for a Canadian released overseas from an American jail in Cuba begged the young man to repeat his efforts to get back home now that his case has been publicized.
"We can’t do a book deal till you come home"
With the 20-year-old’s grandmother at his side, Rocco Galati said Canadian officials have so far denied Abdulrahman Khadr his passport and are either "negligent or spinning lies" because they deny knowing Khadr’s whereabouts. When Khadr last contacted his grandmother in Toronto over the weekend from Yugoslavia, he said it would be his last call to her and his last attempt to get back home. He was running out of money, which he borrowed from some friends in Afghanistan, and was scared of being picked up by authorities and jailed again. "He is very frightened," said Fatmah Elsamnah, adding that every time he calls her he says he is in trouble.
Ah hah, I’ll bet he’s worried his old pals think he sold them out in order to get out of Gitmo. Our evil plan is working!
Galati could not explain how a man with little money and no official documents had travelled from Afghanistan to Pakistan, Turkey and Yugoslavia over the past few weeks.
Humm, because he’s got a lot of money and phoney documents?
Khadr, whose father and brother were allegedly now dead members of al-Qaida, was not returned immediately to Canada from Cuba because American officials told Khadr he was not wanted here, Galati said. However, Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Reynald Doiron said Monday that Khadr chose not to return to Canada upon his release and refuted reports that Khadr was being denied a Canadian passport from embassy officials. Since being released from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in late October, Khadr has tried three times at two different consulate offices in Pakistan and Turkey to renew his Canadian passport and get a flight to Toronto, his grandmother and Galati said.
He must be the only guy who can’t get a passport in Pakistan.
"Canada is acting illegally, unconstitutionally and, arguably, in a criminal fashion," said Galati, who has defended several alleged terrorists following the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States.
Mouthpiece for hire
"Canada, I hate to say it, does not recognize brown-skinned Muslims," Galati said.
And there’s the race card.
Ahmed Said Khadr, Abdul’s father, and his oldest son, Abdullah, are both believed to have died in a gun battle in Pakistan.
The family that jihads together, dies together.
Khadr’s mother and sister were denied Canadian passports to leave Pakistan six months ago, Galati said.
So, Grandma is the only one left in Canada.
Khadr and his youngest brother, Omar, 17, formerly of Toronto, were among hundreds of suspects held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. They were captured separately during the war in Afghanistan following the al-Qaida terror attacks.
So that’s two dead Khadr’s, one in Gitmo, one on the run, mom and sis are in Pakland, and Grandma sitting in her lawyers office in Toronto wondering "What happened?". It’s a good day.
Posted by: Steve 2003-11-25
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=21784