Canada’s Terrorist

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NRO: Why are they taking back Omar Khadr?

Michael Taube

2/20/12

 

Of all the prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay, few have received the kind of intense political discussion and extensive media coverage that Omar Khadr has.

 

In 2002, Khadr was accused of killing U.S. Sergeant First Class Christopher Speer, a combat medic, during a skirmish in Afghanistan. He was captured, linked to al-Qaeda, and detained at the ripe old age of 15. For the past decade, Khadr has been depicted as everything from a vicious child terrorist to a political martyr. It’s little wonder some American and Canadian observers have expressed confusion about the question of Khadr’s guilt for so long.

 

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Ezra Levant, a lawyer, political pundit, and TV host, is one of many Canadians who would rather not see Khadr come back. His new book, The Enemy Within: Terror, Lies, and the Whitewashing of Omar Khadr (McClelland & Stewart, 264 pp.), is a well-researched and highly readable account of the last Western prisoner at Guantanamo. Refusing to accept conventional wisdom, Levant systematically breaks down the myth that many of Khadr’s left-wing supporters have constructed about their hero. The picture he paints is shocking — and should make even some of his most ardent supporters think again.

 

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