Guantanamo
Talking to Omar Khadr
Michael Friscolanti’s exclusive story about Omar Khadr’s conversation with forensic psychiatrist Michael Welner is now online. Chris Selley reads it and considers.
A long November
Vic Toews suggests Omar Khadr won’t be home for Christmas.
Still waiting
The Harper government tries to explain why it hasn’t made a decision about Omar Khadr yet.
Decision time on Omar Khadr
The videotapes and transcripts that Vic Toews demanded have now been delivered. It has now been nearly two years since the Harper government told the American government that it would look favourably on Omar Khadr’s transfer to Canada.
Was Omar Khadr sexually abused?
Michael Friscolanti reports. Plus, the full text of the newly released Khadr psychiatric reports.
10 years for Omar Khadr
Liberal Senator Romeo Dallaire releases a statement on the tenth anniversary of Omar Khadr’s capture in Afghanistan.
He’s coming back
After some degree of wrangling over the necessary paperwork, a request for the transfer of Omar Khadr is now in the hands of the Harper government.
Choose your own position
Yesterday during QP, Liberal MP Geoff Regan stood and asked about the case of a Nova Scotia resident languishing in a Spanish prison. In response, Diane Ablonczy stood and outlined the government’s position on the repatriation of Omar Khadr. She later lamented for the House audio system.
‘It’s irresponsible the way they throw these words around’
Dick Cheney does not appreciate the tone adopted by the likes of Don Davies.
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Wherryleaks
The Globe reports that, according to a memo released by Wikileaks, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner pressed the matter of Omar Khadr with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a meeting in February 2009.
Abuse in a time of fear
Barbara Falk compares the Rosenbergs and Omar Khadr.