Amid ongoing court battles, Omar Khadr uses $3M of his settlement money to buy Edmonton mall

OTTAWA and EDMONTON — Even as American families affected by casualties in Afghanistan seek a share of the $10-million settlement the Canadian federal government paid Omar Khadr, the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner has started spending the money — using $3 million to buy a strip mall in Edmonton last November.

The low-slung, dark brick building is in a residential Edmonton neighbourhood called Kensington. Tenants include a daycare, a tire shop, a travel agency and a garden centre, closed for the season. When the Post visited early Monday afternoon, a few dead plants could be seen withering on its shelves. A handful of vehicles were parked in the lot outside the strip mall, and a car and a minivan sat completely covered in snow.

While negotiating a plea deal that would eventually see him returned to Canada, Khadr confessed in front of a since-discredited American military commission to throwing a grenade that killed U.S. Sgt. Sean Christopher Speer and blinded fellow soldier Layne Morris during a firefight at a suspected al-Qaida compound in 2002. Khadr, arrested in the battle’s aftermath, had been 15 at the time. He was ultimately convicted of five war crimes.

“At this point I can’t control, my clients can’t control what Mr. Khadr does with his money,” said Jamie Schacter, a Toronto-based lawyer for Speer and Morris, in response to news of Khadr’s purchase.

This can't be real news...it can't be, r u serious?

What a shame....Worst story ever for any Canadien tax payers....

You do not see any Vets buying malls .

I feel for the businesses but I wouldn't shop there.

paying twice the price just to get a foothold and then being ostracized and condemned , sad

It is really shameful that the Sun gave no credit to the Rebel.....the rebel broke this and gave the lawyers a months head start to hopefully seize it.........

The rent will soon skyrocket and force out the remaining businesses. Then they will be replaced by a Kebab restaurant, a Halal supermarket, a Hookah lounge and of course a Mosque. Block by block, city by city they are taking over and no one is doing anything to stop it.

The right thing to do would be to give all the money he received from Canada to the widow of the soldier he murdered.

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Utah plaintiffs ask Canadian court to force Omar Khadr to answer questions about his confessionAs part of the pre-trial process, Khadr has refused to discuss the agreed statement of facts he signed on which his 2010 conviction before a U.S. military commission was based Fact he killed an American soldier as part of a terrorist regime. Fact our government gave him 10mm. Fact he now owns a strip mall. The plaintiffs haven't a leg to stand on, when Canada has already accepted the US tortured him. The plaintiff's lawyers are making big $$s though. I wonder if that has anything to do with continuing? First, Utah, Canadians have a few questions of our own, on the techniques the US military used to coerce a confession from child victim of war.
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