'We're Canada's al-Qaeda family'

[Tony]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3534195.stm ...full article


A Canadian released from Guantanamo Bay has admitted he is a member of al-Qaeda - and so are most of his family.
Abdurahman Khadr said he had been "raised to become a suicide bomber" by his father, who was killed in a Pakistani military operation last year.



What's the news in Canada saying about this guy?

[Segnosaur]

Originally posted by Tony
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3534195.stm ...full article

What's the news in Canada saying about this guy?

Hmmm... this differs from his original story: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/WarOnTerrorism/2003/12/01/274082-cp.html


Abdurahman Khadr spent three months in 1998 learning to use Russian assault rifles at an Afghanistan training camp with links to al-Qaida, the former terror suspect admitted at a news conference. But he remains adamant that his ethnicity was the only reason he was singled out and detained by Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan two months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.


Mostly just the facts in the Canadian news right now.

Check out:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1078405063250_31/?hub=TopStories

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1078355412128&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968705899037

And his mother and sister, interviewed in Pakistan, said they were proud of their family's connection to the terrorists behind the September 2001 attacks.

[Crossbow]

Originally posted by Tony
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3534195.stm ...full article





What's the news in Canada saying about this guy?

Try reading the rest of the article ...

...

Khadr was released after agreeing to co-operate with US authorities, but his brother is still in the Cuba base.

...

In other words, since they are still holding his brother there is a very good incentive for this person who was released to keep on the straight and narrow!

[epepke]

Bump.

Even if this turns into a "crickets chirping" thread, it should stay on the front page for a while.

[Segnosaur]

Originally posted by Crossbow

In other words, since they are still holding his brother there is a very good incentive for this person who was released to keep on the straight and narrow!

The 'incentive' didn't really work that well, considering...
- He did lie quite a bit prior to his admission "I'm not a terrorist, they picked me up because of my race, etc..." If there was an incenive to be on the straight and narrow, why falsely accuse the US?
- Other people in the family were still fighting on the terrorist side

[epepke]

Originally posted by Segnosaur
The 'incentive' didn't really work that well, considering...
- He did lie quite a bit prior to his admission "I'm not a terrorist, they picked me up because of my race, etc..." If there was an incenive to be on the straight and narrow, why falsely accuse the US?
- Other people in the family were still fighting on the terrorist side

Well, of course, these are the kind of statements that one reasonably expects any suspect to emit.

But I had to endure months and months of left-wing drivel about how horrible and wrong Gitmo was and how people were detained solely because of their race and how it was even more horrible because some of them were Canadians, and Canadians are all such wonderful people and so on and so forth. And then it was a horrible, illegal deportation.

And now, it turns out Al Qaeda is practically the family business.

I am definitely not a fan of the right-wing press, but I think they have shown almost superhuman restraint in not turning this into a Month O' Sarcasm. "Bob" knows they have every reason and right.

The crickets are chirping, big time.

[epepke]

Bump again. Crickets still chirping.

[Crossbow]

Originally posted by Segnosaur


The 'incentive' didn't really work that well, considering...
- He did lie quite a bit prior to his admission "I'm not a terrorist, they picked me up because of my race, etc..." If there was an incenive to be on the straight and narrow, why falsely accuse the US?
- Other people in the family were still fighting on the terrorist side

Er, I do not quite follow your logic.

First of all, when people are first captured by the authorities, they often tend to lie about their role.
Second, he and his bother were caputured after the 9/11 attacks, not before, therefore it would be impossible to suppose that the caputure would deter them from being terrorists some two years prior to their arrest.

[Segnosaur]

Originally posted by Crossbow


Er, I do not quite follow your logic.

First of all, when people are first captured by the authorities, they often tend to lie about their role.
Second, he and his bother were caputured after the 9/11 attacks, not before, therefore it would be impossible to suppose that the caputure would deter them from being terrorists some two years prior to their arrest.

The point I was making was that if it was a real 'incentive', then others in the family (like the women who are proud to be in the 'family') would also be eager to cooperate.

[Segnosaur]

Ok, things in the story just keep getting stranger and stranger.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=1845&e=10&u=/cpress/20040304/ca_pr_on_na/terror_khadr_family


A Canadian who admitted his family has had links to al-Qaida says he was recruited to work for the CIA , the FBI and the U.S. military in Afghanistan and later at the U.S. prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

[epepke]

Originally posted by Segnosaur
Ok, things in the story just keep getting stranger and stranger.

I admit that it's pretty strange that a supposedly English-language paper should put "he for worked CIA, FBI" in a title.

We're definitely finding out what a post-literate society is all about.