Yesterday The Duran reported on the Omar Khadr settlement case, and subsequent apology, that plagues Trudeau’s administration.
Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is facing very strong backlash over his governments’ decision to pay over $10.5 million ($8 million USD) to Omar Khadr, and then offer an apology to the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, who killed US Army Sgt Christopher Speer in 2002.
Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, if facing strong backlash over his governments’ decision to hand over $10.5 million ($8 million USD) to Omar Khadr, and then offer an apology to the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner.
Khadr fought against coalition forces in Afghanistan as a 15 year old boy, before being sent to Guantanamo Bay.
Former child soldier Omar Khadr was held by the U.S. for 10 years. (Photo: Canadian Press)
Toronto-born Omar Khadr—who was captured by the U.S. military in 2002 when he was just a teenager and held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba—will receive an apology and reportedly $10.5 million ($8 million USD) from the Canadian government for failing to protect him from abuse while he was detained for more than a decade.
Media obfuscation and the Khadr controversy
By Brandon Martinez (Copyright 2015)
The controlled Canadian media is awash with controversy following the release from prison of Omar Khadr, a former child soldier who was accused and convicted in a US military kangaroo court of killing an occupying American soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002.
