During the 10-minute video of his questioning in Guantanamo a year later, he can be seen crying, his face buried in his hands, and pulling at his hair. He can be heard repeatedly chanting: “Help me.”
At one point he lifts his orange shirt to show the foreign ministry official and agents from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) wounds on his back and stomach which he says he sustained in Afghanistan.
“I’m not a doctor, but I think you’re getting good medical care,” one of the officials responds.
Mr Khadr says: “No I’m not. You’re not here… I lost my eyes. I lost my feet. Everything!” in reference to how his vision and physical health were affected.
“No, you still have your eyes and your feet are still at the end of your legs, you know,” a man says.
Sobbing uncontrollably, Mr Khadr tells the officials several times: “You don’t care about me.”
Now, may we view any of the thousands of similar videos of vicious and manipulative murderers, rapists, and thugs sobbing their way through other police interrogations?
Spare me.
Now you’ve gone and made him cry. You owe him an apology.
Listen to the young lad. He’s absolutely correct. I couldn’t care less for the little turd and his creepy family.
The MSM is calling for righteous indignation over that?
What has this bloody world come to when an enemy combatant can’t even be healed, fed and politely questioned without the leftards getting their knickers in a twist.
Boo…freakin’…Hoo
As I posted in ‘tips’ according to Fife,this is the ‘first time we get to see real torture’ What is wrong with these people? Ridiculous.BTW,the comments on story at different news sites aren’t going so well in Khadr’s favor.MSM will need to hype this a lot more I guess.
Boooo hooooo, lucky he’s not lying in a crate somewhere especially after killing that medic. But no, all you hear about is, sob sob, boo hoo, he was just so young and he didn’t get enough sleep. Sob sob, let’s bring him home, give him a house, pay a few mill and support his cause. Nahh, better yet, let the US handle it. Ever since that Brenda Martin crappola every convenient canadian around the world in custody expects our government ministers to run over and bring them back
Looks like the bleeding hearts want to coddle the poor little terrorist. A sound bite from our biased media suggests that most Canadians, want to bring him back to Canada. Maybe Stephane Dion can take him in, and give him the Father figure, the poor little piece of camel dung is missing in his life!!!
Notice that different reports have him sobbing “Help me” (which is what I heard). But, the CBC has the more desperate “Kill me.”
In these cases, I like to imagine that, instead of a 15 year-old Muslim youth fighting at his father’s behest in Afghanistan, what if it were the 15 year-old son of a KKK king-pin engaging US authorities…anywhere in the world?
Imagine that some white-supremacist taught his children to hate and kill the Jew-loving servants of the American government and then sent him out to some battlefield to engage US soldiers. Then this kid (“unlawful combatant”) gets wounded and captured after killing an American soldier.
Anyone want to bet that the CBC, CTV, and all other branches of the Liberal Party would be up-in-arms over the issue? Want to bet that there’d be lawyers getting air-time trying to spur outrage among the citizens and politicians of Canada? Want to bet that Romeo D’Allaire would be comparing Canada to the Taliban for not doing more to get the poor youth home?
Morons…absolute hypocritical morons.
The soldier that shot him missed his head…
So where is the torture? There is a difference between sleep deprivation and sleep interruption. One is torture the other is an interrogation tactic.
The Canadian government does need to ensure he isnt being tortured, that he receives some semblance of a fair trial and due process….these are rights and responsibilities of the accussed and the government respectively.
I am sorry he is stuck in jail, I am sorry he was raised by an idiot who raised him in the waters of violent jihad….quite frankly his mother should be in a Canadian jail for child abuse for letng it happen, actual harm versus symbolic harm.
Ensure he goes through his trial in the US and when all is said and done if he is convicted then we can discuss whether he serves his sentence out here in Canada.
This is the whole problem with enemy combatants and Prisoners of War….if he was a POW there wouldnt be any question that he stays there till the war is done…..the left wanted these people as prisoners of war…well now the SC ruled they can be seen as criminals and access the civilian justice system. What a freaking mess
I assume that the US is no longer making the mistake oc capturing two-bit terrorist twerps like this anymore?
As soon as we bring this child home we’ll have to cut him a check, for say 10 million dollars.
What we should be doing is re-evaluating the definition of Canadian Citizenship, no residency, no citizenship! We stripped many Nasi collaborators of citizen and shipped them back to Germany , why does this not apply to these haters.
There is a TERRIBLE injustice being done here.
His mother and siblings should be locked up with him and all left to rot.
Horny Toad
How can the three far-left opposition leaders and their extreme, left-wing cohorts at the terrorists friendly, bias CBC not recognize that Khadr is an unremorseful, experienced, committed, un-salvageable terrorists, and therefore a danger to all Canadians.
CBC’s wack-job, terrorists sympathizers, who hate Americans, refuse to acknowledge that he was captured on a battle field trying to terrorize Iraqis and their American liberators.
Surely even our liberal Conservative Party PM will oppose any and all pressures to bring this savage, animalistic terrorist home to follow-up on his terrorists career as so many of the other terrorists have done.
Its time that legitimate small-c conservative members of the Conservative Party insist that PM Harper refuse to give in to his liberal views. The PM must not tolerate far-left-wing bias, terrorists friendly media govern Canadian policies.
and the video that CBC or CTV will never show Canadians. Khadr’s ex-buddies, the Taliban doing their own version of interrogation and justice.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/193294.php
How’s that jihad crap working for you now, Khadr? Why should we help you? Why should we care about you? Because you are a Canadian? Sorry, bud, but there ain’t no such thing as a Canadian islamist; the two are not compatible. You wanna blame someone: blame your islamist nutjob parents!
“Her husband, Ahmed Said Khadr, was an avowed al-Qaeda sympathizer before he was killed in fighting with Pakistani military forces in 2003. Elsamnah refused to say more without speaking to her lawyer.”
The Khadrs lived and ate with the Osama bin Ladens in the same compound together.
Saying ” Ahmed Said Khadr, was an avowed al-Qaeda sympathizer” is like saying Herman Goering was an avowed Nazi sympathizer.
Seriously low-balling it to the point of incredulity.
The comments over at CBC are quite heartening. It would seem that there are a lot of people who have no sympathy at all for this evil little shithead. Maybe all is not lost.
I think we need to build half-way houses for these creeps.
I think we need to locate them in Rosedale. Where the media live.
Oh, and just what IS the definition of TREASON here in Canada circa 2008??!!
Just what does it take to be charged with it?
How does the whole Khadr clan get away with not being hung for it?
A nation, a country which won’t lift a finger to protect itself doesn’t deserve to survive.
Is there a Juno category for this performance?
Should he leave Guantanamo? (of course this video and its sympathy plea hype is supporting that cause) I say YES – if the alternative is Afghanistan. That’s where the killing took place. Let the Afghani justice system do its thing…Or stay in Guantanamo and STFU.
When will the CBC produce the Life and Times of Khadr?
When he is returned to Canada will there be a parade down Yonge Street?
When can we expect to see his face on a Canadian postage stamp?
Canada’s MSM talk about this little jihadist like he’s Saint Khadr.
I have no sympathy for his circumstance – which is likely preferable to the conditions of the millions of Canadian children who live in poverty
Islamist spin and manipulation taking advantage of the easily duped kaffir, again:
“Khadr’s mother, Maha Elsamnah, emotional after watching her son’s interrogation, expressed a deep sense of loss for her family and uncertainty over what she should do.”
Cry me a river. At least she and her family are receiving plenty of jizya, I mean welfare.
“Elsamnah said she feels the need to protect the five children still with her.”
Uh huh. Then what about this?
“Maha Khadr, Abdulrahman’s mother, said that she would be happy to see her children die as shaheed (martyrs) just as her husband did.”
Canadian values indeed.
But of course the CBC, the Star, the Globe, etc., have conveniently forgotten the mother’s wish that her children die killing Canadian infidels. And the fact that Omar succeeded as a treasonous murderer.
Unfortunately, you can’t de-recommend comments over there–so all the bleeding heart BS is up top because the same 3 anti-western leftists liked them.
I’m not interested enough to register in order to post comments, but I’ll say my piece here:
The fact remains that he took up arms against the United States, and was captured in combat by US forces. The sentiment that “he should be transferred to Canada, because he is a Canadian citizen” has no basis in either history or international law. He should think himself fortunate that the leftists in the US have saved him from the death penalty–at least 2/3 of Americans would want him to hang for his crimes.
Looks to me like any criminal who realizes he got caught – you can see it everyday on the various A&E crime shows televised on TV. He’s right about one thing – I don’t care about him in any way.
Been watching the CBC’s slanted coverage this morning and notice one glaring omission in particular: interviews with the Khadr family themselves. Why is this? Oh yeah, that’s right, because their unsavoury views wouldn’t exactly help in adavancing the CBC’s agenda—to embarrass the Harper gov’t. In fact it would likely backfire. And the CBC knows this. As a result, best not cover that angle they feel. Don’t even dispatch a reporter to the home.
Just like when a lawyer advises a client not to speak publicly when it’s deemed to be detrimental to the case—advice given especially to those who speaks off the cuff with outlandish remarks just like the Khadr family does—so to apparently is the CBC engaging in this, having been caught in its own advocacy position for the al-Qeuda family through their omission of this component to this story. If this is not true then why are we not hearing from Mommy Khadr herself or any member of the al Queda family? After all they’re featuring everyone else advocating on behalf of Omar Khadr – from lawyers to opposition politicians to human rights groups. Does the CBC feel that Canadians aren’t just as interested to hear from Mommy Khadr as they were in hearing and seeing Brenda Martin’s sobbing mother? We certainly got a healthy dose of her from the CBC, didn’t we? Ah, but that’s only because she could be used to inflict embarassment on the Harper gov’t.
The spin stops here!
addendum:
They did run an interview but it certainly won’t be played up to the extent that Brenda Martin’s sobbing mother was.
Let’s all agree with the left that Khadr is a Canadian citizen and that the rule of law must be applied.
So, what’s the penalty for treason?
The good news is this video will create some serious backlash against both the MSM and the kid’s lawyer.
It could go down in history as one of the stupidest defence tactics ever.
He was being INTERROGATED. He was not being tortured or intimidated, the other two things which the lawyer is trying to draw a moral equivalence on.
Far as I could see, the CSIS agents were as courteous as could be faced with a typically whining teenaged boy. Mind you, most Canadian teenaged boys that age are in Grade 10 somewhere not shooting at soldiers and having a bullet rip through the left side of their body.
To clarify one point. Was this action in Iraq or in Afghanistan? I’ve always believed it was in Afghanistan since part of the deal was that the family could have been shooting bullets at soldiers which gave the rest of their family welfare.
No sympathy here. Even less after this video was released, showing nothing unusual.
From the Canadian Marxist Press via the Winnipeg Free Gramscian:
“In an interview Monday, Khadr’s lawyer Dennis Edney said he’s received several e-mails expressing two distinct forms of outrage, both of them aimed at Ottawa.
“One is anger at being misled by the government and two is anger at the intractability of Mr. Harper with regards to a young man,” Edney said from Edmonton.
“What sense I get is that people feel that Mr. Harper is very harsh.”
Mr. Harper is very harsh? WTF? Does anyone recall Mr. Harper killing an American medic or participating in Taliban atrocities?
My uncle fought in WWII and he told me the Muslims were always cowards. He said they were evil bastards if they know they could get away with it, but would run like hell if they had to fight a tough fight.
There are numerous examples over the last 100 years of Muslim cowardice.
This blubbering man is just another example.
They are happy to behead us, and shoot at us, but once caught they blubber at the first question.
We have another example of a previous Liberal government taking no action, then wringing their hands at Tory “inaction.” Khadr was interrogated about 3 years prior to Tories gaining power.
Anyway, read Peter Worthington’s article. Khadr is a POW in a war that is still taking place. Additionally, he, as a citizen of Canada, gave comfort and aid to our enemies, which is a working definition of treason.
By all means bring him back, and try him for treason.
Where is my violin?
Frankly I don’t give a damn if he’s been tortured beaten or water boarded. I just don’t care, Canada opened her doors to that family and in return those treasonous bastards spew forth hate and filth towards our Country and Culture and they do so on taxpayers’ dime.
It’s rather amusing watching a hardcore Islamist bawl like a baby when he doesn’t get what he wants.
Nobody cares about this terrorist except for the Liberal party and the MSM. The Liberal party cares because it is supporting its ethnic voting blocs in Montreal and Toronto. Denis Coderre anyone?
And the MSM keeps peddling this story because the leftist journalists are our superiors; and it is their duty to tell us that as Canadians we must constantly acquiesce to the “permanently oppressed classes” of the world.
“Frankly I don’t give a damn if he’s been tortured beaten or water boarded”
Are you kidding? I’d be disappointed if he wasn’t.
Kadr and his whole family are demonstrably treasonous enemies of Canadian, even while being citizens. The sad truth is that our pathetic justice system is simply not geared to dealing with the realities of war and terrorism – that’s the reason why Harper doesn’t want him back. Our Charter affords him a multitude of rights, without requiring anything by way of responsibilities and by the time his lawyers get finished asserting all his rights, there will be no way our justice system will be able to convict him. We are trying to apply a (soft) crime system model to a war & terrorism situation – round peg, square hole. Our system is simply not able to exercise any self defense on behalf of the nation, in these types of things, so bringing him back here will be a bolluxed-up mess. Further, the unthinking, emotional response that is being whipped up by the media is a political minefield. Too many Canadians simply cannot process the ugly facts and realities around Kadr and view him as one of the neighbourhood teenagers, which is hopelessly naive. As in the Brenda Martin case, it is just too easy for Canadian public opinion to be manipulated by a display of emotion. Too many are not prepared to do a clear-eyed assessment of all the circumstances and facts here. The best solution is to leave him where he is, for now, because we can’t deal with him.
There is a lot of sympathy for Kadhr but I think if more people would see him as he was it would be far less.
There is a picture of Omar Khadr with a smug look holding up his trophies – two hands severed at the wrist connected with a string. I doubt that anyone in civilized society after seeing this picture would have any sympathy for him. If you Google ‘Kadhr severed hands’ you can decide for yourself if he is worth your sympathy, or thanks to the blog “dust my broom” click the link below.
Unfortunately the MSM won’t show this nor will they allow me to mention it on any of their blogs. examples – CTV, Toronto Star, etc.
http://dustmybroom.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3617&Itemid=1
That there is even one comment supporting this POS, as seen on the CBC message board, is sickening.
I hear these leftist moaners complain that he should be brought to Canada..why?
So that they can mount a petition to have him feed, given a stipend and have a govt building named after him?
Screw him and his terrorist loving family, and screw all the morons who support this nauseating piece of garbage..
Well, Canadian justice is to justice as Canadian music is to music, but I s’pose if we have to bring the little f*ckwad back, I’ll take what I can get.
Separate trials, one for treason, one for murder. Oh, and in light of his entire family’s avowed interest in global jihad, perhaps a hearing as well for dangerous offender status.
That oughta keep the little sh!t behind bars for at least 50 years…
Rose and Warwick,
I think Kahdr should be locked up and the key thrown away as well, but seriously get a grip. I think you’re the one’s frothing at the mouth when you begin sharpening the knives and heating the irons in preparation for the “evil terrorist scum”. He killed someone in another country. Get a grip.
Yes he’s a terrorist, and terrorism takes murder to the next step in that they’re trying to destroy what Canada stands for, but if a white 15 year old boy whose parents were FLQ members, and a grenade was thrown from their home in similar circumstances, I’m pretty sure nobody in Canada would stand for him to sit in prison without a trial or charges, and I quite doubt that you’d be frothing quite so much as you are now in sheer delight at the thought of water boarding the kid. I do agree that there’s some difficult questions regarding POW’s, but because the U.S. isn’t treating them as POW’s, you can’t expect people just to love this limbo business. Either the U.S. amends it’s constitution, or makes new provisions for what it’s doing, or it treats them like POW’s and follows the international treaties it’s signed.
*freed*
Garth:
POW’s are usually released once the war ends.
That’s what happened to my father, who was liberated from a German camp.
Khadr’s mother, Maha Elsamnah, emotional after watching her son’s interrogation, expressed a deep sense of loss for her family and uncertainty over what she should do.
Well, cry me a river! For God’s sake, Mrs Elsamnah, when your scumball jihadi husband booked his flight with sonny to kill Canadian infidels in Afghanistan as he just couldn’t get away with it in Toronto what you should have done, if you really were concerned about the kid, was to have gotten off of your ass then and contacted authorities before the kid got on the plane. Sure Mr Jihadi would have been as angry as hell and might have been deported, but, sonny would have had a nice life and most likely the Canadian welfare checks that you live off of would have kept coming even after you had sent Mr Jihadi packing.
So maybe while you sit stunned in Toronto surrounded by the gracious generosity of misplaced liberalism, you can reflect upon one of the oldest, most primative, and most important good qualities about most mothers and that is protecting their children above all else.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t this poor innocent lad kill a US Army medic with a grenade?
Makes it hard for me to work up any sympathy for him, what with the lack of beating and hot irons and all. Just sayin’.
Barjebus..sage and onions..
Are you suggesting that for those of us against this family, it comes down to a racial issue?
We don’t want to see this man nor his family in Canada because we see what happens to terrorists (white or brown..) when delivered into the hands of ‘Canadian justice’..
..because it would seem that in Canada, terrorist or no, you are let go, and in some cases, can then go on to host talk shows to spread the venom, or hold elected office in the very province you committed your crimes in!
Don’t try to make it into an issue that you know is disengenuous at best..
Yup his eyes don’t work , his feet don’t work, no surprises here, fact is none of the Kadhr clan work they want their “rights” as Canadians, complete with multiple passports, medical care, hey how about an “order of Canada” and a ticker tape parade, what a wonderful opportunity for the RED C B C to attempt to slag S Harper. Fact is the brave little jihad was interrogated on Cretin’s watch. as far as this Canadian is concerned DEPORT THEM ALL>
It is too bad that the soldiers that returned fire missed his head.
kursk:
Can you give me one example of a former terrorist now hosting a talk show?