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Omar Khadr is set to appear before a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Thursday. It is expected that Mr. Khadr will attempt to become the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be represented solely by civilian lawyers. Mr. Khadr, who is now 22-years-old, was involved in a firefight with US forces in Afghanistan in July 2002. Omar Khadr was 15-years-old at the time of the incident. He is facing five charges of terrorism and one of those charges is murder as a war crime. The US alleges that during the firefight, Mr. Khadr threw a grenade at US soldiers that resulted in the death of a US Delta Force soldier, Sgt. Christopher Speer.
Just days before Mr. Khadr's scheduled appearance, the Coalition to Repatriate Omar Khadr held a rally just outside the Citizenship and Immigration Canada offies in mid-town Toronto. A small group of dedicated individuals gathered together to demand the Canadian government repatriate Omar Khadr to Canada because he is being illegally detained by a foreign nation s tate. Organizers of the rally said that they believe the Canadian government has "breached the human rights of" and "systemically ignored" Canadian citizens detained abroad, like Omar Khadr and Abousfian Abdelrazik, who was recently returned to Canada after a 6-year fight to clear his name. Omar Khadr's supporters unfurled a banner at the rally on St. Clair Avenue East that depicted 2,545 tick marks representing each day that Mr. Khadr has spent being detained at the US military prison. Khadr supporters wore orange wristbands, orange t-shirts and orange jumpsuits all mimicing the garb that prisoners at Guantanamo are forced to wear.
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Nice try 1) My god doesn't speak to spawn of Satan blasphemers like you, he only communicates...
Let's see if he will get a fair trial.