U.S. presses for Omar Khadr’s long-delayed transfer to Canada

[CHIMO]

Source: Globe and Mail

The United States wants the long-delayed transfer of Omar Khadr – the convicted al-Qaeda terrorist and murderer – to Canada to go ahead because it will serve as a model for sending others held at the Guantanamo Bay prison back home.

“There are continuing negotiations to work out that transfer,” U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said during a visit to Ottawa. “I don’t have a specific timeline for signing it, but once those arrangements have been made, obviously we will approve the transfer to Canada.”

Some U.S. officials have been hinting for months that stalling by the Canadian government was holding up the transfer.

As part of a plea-bargain deal from October, 2010, Mr. Khadr – who many regard as a victim, a child soldier who deserved rehabilitation not a decade in Guantanamo – agreed to plead guilty to multiple charges, including murder and terrorism, in return for an eight-year sentence, only one of which was to be served at the U.S. naval station on a leased base in Cuba.



Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/us-presses-for-omar-khadrs-long-delayed-transfer-to-canada/article2383465/

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A hot potato. And he wasn't even seventeen when his life changed!

[Canuckistanian]

1. This idea has already been floated

Harper doesn't want anything to do with Khadr. Harper KNOWS that the courts will get involved and will want to know details about oh, things like is he guilty of a crime or not.

Ain't gonna happen.

[CHIMO]

2. When

The big guy says "move it". It better move. Or your F-35's will blow up in your hands!

Omar Khadr's transfer to Canada nears approval

A "frustrated" Omar Khadr could be back in Canada by the end of May, with both Ottawa and Washington poised to approve his transfer from Guantanamo Bay, where the convicted war criminal has been held for almost a decade, The Canadian Press has learned.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/03/28/omar-khadr-transfer-canada.html
Mar 28, 2012 7:24 PM ET

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. Just put the idiot on the next flight to Toronto and be done with it,

The Harper government doesn't want to repatriate criminals, in complete defiance of international norms. If they don't want to repatriate them as prisoners, just hand them over to immigration and let them deal with them when they show up at Pearson.