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Khadr the Younger back in Canada - maybe
A Canadian terror suspect whose whereabouts had been in question following his release by U.S. authorities is back home, according to reports. Abdul Rahman Khadr is believed to have arrived in Canada early Sunday.
| No doubt the citizens of Yellowknife are thronging the streets with joy... |
Khadr, 20, was reportedly given a special permit to return home after walking into the Canadian Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia last week.
| "I'm here. Gimme a ticket back to Kaffirland..." |
A consular official accompanied Khadr, a Canadian citizen, on his trip to Toronto.
| "Yessir! Right this way, sir! Wouldja like me to hold your turban, sir?" |
Khadr was held without charges at the American base at Guantanamo Bay as a terrorist suspect and was secretly released last month.
| "Get the hell out, Koran boy!" |
He was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan nearly two years ago on suspicion of being an al Qaeda fighter. Khadr reportedly said that after he was released by U.S. authorities, they refused to take him to Canada and instead dropped him in Afghanistan. He had no Canadian [passport] or money.
| "Whaddya mean, you don't want to go back to Afghanistan? We thought you liked Afghanistan. Y'got a nice shipping container to live in, a turban, and lotsa fellows named Mahmoud to hang around with." |
He said he borrowed money from friends and went to the Canadian High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan looking for help, but they turned him away because he had no way to identify himself.
| "Do we know you? Have we been introduced?" |
Khadr then went to Iran and Turkey before arriving late last week in Bosnia.
| How'd he get there? Thumbed a ride? |
His family insisted Khadr had been trying to get back to Canada, but Ottawa said there was no truth to claims heâd been turned away by Canadian officials in Pakistan and Turkey.
Posted by: Dan Darling 2003-12-01 |
