April 30, 2007

Court Turns Down Canadian Jihadi Case

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined an appeal made by a 15 year old Canadian jihadi detained after he threw a hand grenade at a medic in Afghanistan. The Canadian peacenicks have been up in arms over Omar Khadr's detention. Oddly, nary a peep out of the same groups about a 15 year old kid fighting with the Taliban.

CBC:

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of Omar Khadr, the only Canadian imprisoned at the U.S. detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

Khadr is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. medic in Afghanistan in 2002. He also faces charges of attempted murder, conspiracy, spying and providing material support for terrorism.

He has been in U.S. custody since he was seized in Afghanistan at the age of 15.

His family lives in Toronto, and I'm sure the city is much more charming because their presence.

Incidentally, a Yemeni detainee's case, that of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, was also turned down.

UPDATE: A friend e-mails:

Forget the fact he was 15 - his whole family was involved in terrorism. His dad was killed and his brother crippled in a firefight between the Taliban they were with and Pakistanis -- his sister was caught with a videotape of OBL attending her wedding... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaynab_Khadr

I hate Wikipedia but I don't have all my stuff on Khadr in front of me - the entry is pretty good though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khadr

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khadr_family

The sources for the entries give lots more details... the family is always in the news in Canada.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 12:37 PM | |