OTTAWA — In his first major interview since an Alberta judge ruled his war crimes sentence has expired, a composed Omar Khadr appeared Sunday night on the ferociously popular Quebec talk show Tout le monde on parle.
Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 as a 15-year-old, injured by the same firefight in which U.S. soldier Christopher Speer was killed, and held at the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison. In 2010 he was dealt an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to multiple crimes, including the urder of Speer’s, in front of a since-discredited U.S. military commission.
Here’s some of what Khadr said in his appearance, which was in English, with French subtitles for Quebec viewers.Asked for his own recollections of the day Speer was killed and he was picked up by American soldiers, Khadr claimed he can’t say for sure how it all happened. “Saying that I was a child soldier would assume that it was a regular war and I was in a regular army,” he said. “I think I was just at an unfortunate place with an unfortunate circumstances, that you know, I was with adults, they told me to do something and I did it. So I don’t know if I would call myself — that’s the term people use to try to describe my situation.
The anger for this- if you struggle with not wanting our gov’t sending its citizens for torture- is on Harpers crew -the CPC-who gave a 15 year old kid away into that situation- not the humanitarian who had to compensate
Just to make a correction THIS SETTLEMENT IS NOT FOR EVERY CANADIAN IT IS FROM EVERY TAXPAYING CANADIAN'S POCKET.
Can’t get accepted by any nursing school, meanwhile a couple of bona fide nurses, doctors have been convicted of murdering their patients....
Disgusting waste of $$ when we have so many loyal Canadian Veterans in great need! Trudeau must GO!noJusticeinCanada
So where’s my slice?
The Harper Cons screwed this file up so badly, it's an embarrassment, that Canadian's should direct their anger - directly at Harper.