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Khadr the Younger admits training at al-Qaeda related camp | |||||
2003-12-02 | |||||
And just think, he could be in NYC in a day with his passport ... Abdul Rahman Khadr admits learning to use assault weapons at an âal-Qaeda relatedâ training camp but insisted that such instruction was routine for teens in war-torn Afghanistan. "All the other terrorist leadersâ kids were doing it!"
Just the whole Wahhabi/Salafist "kill infidels" and "worldwide theocracy" shticks, but those were all taught in religious classes, not political ones. Beyond that you could either go fight the Great Satan directly or join an affiliate group. As far as Binny never visiting, the man has an international terrorist network to run, for Godâs sake, you think he stops by every five minutes for tea with the cannon fodder? Mr. Khadr â a Canadian citizen captured in Afghanistan and held by U.S. authorities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than a year â denied Monday that negative conclusions should be drawn from his training at such a camp. Youâll forgive me if I politely disagree with him on this one. He called the time he spent training âa waste of my lifeâ but stressed that it was perfectly normal for youths in Afghanistan to learn to handle weapons. âEvery kid, when heâs around 15, goes to train,â he said.
Guess the Canuck press is doing at least some homework these days ... âIn the beginning, who were [the camps] made by? Americans. Who were they made by? By the West. Because of the war against the Russians in the very beginning, against the communists. It was very normal thing, everybody was supportive of what was happening in the very beginning when it was against communists,â he said. â... Lots of the people who trained at these camps, they were not al-Qaeda. They [wanted] to come and fight against the Northern Alliance.â Or the Russians or the Indians or the Filippinos or the southern Sudanese or the Algerian junta or the Uzbek dictator, ect. Itâs that whole Armed Struggle(TM) thing ... Mr. Khadr, now 20, said that he had been handed over to the Americans by a Northern Alliance commander â who, he said, detained him solely because he was an Arab and might thus be connected to al-Qaeda. After more than one year in the U.S. penal colony in Cuba he was told he would be released.
One word: Why? With no passport or money, he said he tapped old friends of his father, people who had access to power and influence. Pakistani fundos like Qazi and Saeed or the good brass in VEVAK and the IRGC? He borrowed enough money to be smuggled to Islamabad, where he was turned away by guards at the Canadian embassy, and then on to Istanbul, where he was similarly rejected. It was only in Sarajevo, after his plight had become public, that he was received by Canadian diplomatic officials. Um, okay. That still doesnât explain what you were doing in Iran ... A reporter tried to suggest that, since it was the security guards and not the embassy officials who had spurned his pleas for help, the Canadian government could not be accused of forsaking him. That line of argument was blasted by Mr. Khadrâs lawyer, Rocco Galati. âThose security guards are officials, they are the gatekeepers to our embassy,â he said, putting heavy emphasis on the word âourâ. âI donât like these nonsense, disingenuous distinctions between the persons at the door and the persons behind the door, if you canât get behind the door itâs the same thing. Those security guards are Canadian officials.â
Youâre breaking my heart here, kid ... The younger Mr. Khadr, who turned 17 in September, is now believed to be the only Canadian remaining at Guantanamo Bay. Can we keep him there? | |||||
Posted by:Dan Darling |
#5 We're gonna have to make Lone Ranger the official Rantburg Mourner of Morons. |
Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-2 3:23:39 PM |
#4 My favorite example of a fake quote circulated by the "peace" movement: "Iraq is an imminent danger to the US." -- President G. W. Bush |
Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-12-2 9:59:09 AM |
#3 Yar! We be "campers!" So every 15 yr old goes to "camp" huh? I enjoyed archery, canoeing, and swimming myself, but damn! we didn't get AK-47 training! Shit - screwed again! Does our poor mistreated lil jihadi have any skills at all? *snicker* Lone Ranger has this 'mechanic' pegged! If Kanada had any sense or guts or understanding of their situation soon to be predicament, they'd deport him and his entire family back to Afghanistan, cancel the whole lot's passports. THEN they'd start searching their records for similar twits - which they will find by the boatload - a convenient lot size. So how's that Friendship Fence coming along? Can we, uh, hurry it up a little? |
Posted by: .com 2003-12-2 4:26:42 AM |
#2 Once again, I want to be the first one to request a moment of silence Whatcha' all think? |
Posted by: Lone Ranger 2003-12-2 1:40:32 AM |
#1 Abdul wants to know where the grown ups are. He needs help damn it. |
Posted by: Lucky 2003-12-2 1:27:08 AM |