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Jesus.

Maha Elsamnah told The Canadian Press she doesn't know if she'll be able to bear to watch the seven-hour video of the interrogation, which was conducted in February 2003 – just six months after the 15-year-old Khadr was badly injured in a firefight with American troops.

"I'm a mother – I'm scared to see it," an emotional Elsamnah said in an interview.

"I hope I can gather all my strength. It's not something nice to see. I hope I can handle it."

Don't watch it, babe. How stupid are you?

The Khadrs were once personal friends of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, a relationship fostered by the family patriarch.

In a TV interview several years ago, Elsamnah angered Canadians by expressing sympathy for Al Qaeda but said today that that shouldn't cloud the suffering inflicted on her teenage son.

"Whatever I said or whatever I did – or his father – that's not his fault. He's been through hell for six years," she said.

I guess that answers that question.

Elsamnah said she wasn't surprised Canadian intelligence officials would try to turn abuse of her son to their advantage. After all, she noted, they did the same thing when they interrogated Khadr's older brother Abdullah when he was in custody in Pakistan.

How coincidental. Both her sons have been arrested for terrorism. Couldn't possibly be something that runs in the family, now, could it?

"It seems like a dictatorship: If the prime minister or president says something, it goes – even if the whole public doesn't like it," Elsamnah said.

What the hell makes her think the whole public doesn't like it? Just because she doesn't like it she thinks the whole smurfing public doesn't, either? I've only browsed the first of 3 pages of comments at the bottom of the article, but I didn't see a single one that's the slightest bit sympathetic to this Al Qaeda bitch or her low-life offspring. The prevailing view seems to be more along the lines of "deport them to hell," and I couldn't agree more.

without the inmate gang rapes, i understand.

Duke Stratosphere wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

So is Gitmo punishment? Like a jail?

Yeah, Shnicky, it is. That's the sort of place you can end up in if you get into a firefight with American troops. Come on, dude, smell some coffee here, will ya, please? This kid's family was all buddy-buddy with OSAMA, right? Am I supposed to believe that he just accidentally wandered from Canada to Afghanistan and happened to be passing by when the firefight ensued? bullsmurf. And his mother, when given the opportunity to denounce Al Qaeda, instead praises them? Now, come on, dude, why the hell do you want this loser turned loose? (if you actually do want him turned loose ... you didn't seem really committed to that, actually)

So is getting into a firefight with US troops enough to get there, or does there have to be something more?

So there was a crime committed in other words.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Duke Stratosphere wrote:

ShnickyShnack wrote:

So is Gitmo punishment? Like a jail?

Yeah, Shnicky, it is. That's the sort of place you can end up in if you get into a firefight with American troops. Come on, dude, smell some coffee here, will ya, please? This kid's family was all buddy-buddy with OSAMA, right? Am I supposed to believe that he just accidentally wandered from Canada to Afghanistan and happened to be passing by when the firefight ensued? bullsmurf. And his mother, when given the opportunity to denounce Al Qaeda, instead praises them? Now, come on, dude, why the hell do you want this loser turned loose? (if you actually do want him turned loose ... you didn't seem really committed to that, actually)

So is getting into a firefight with US troops enough to get there, or does there have to be something more?

No, there doesn't have to be anything more than getting into a firefight with US troops, especially under the circumstances of this person's detainment. He's lucky he survived the experience at all.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

Farmerkev wrote:

Not enough information to make that determination.
Reasonable suspicion seems probable.

No known crime,

Oh, come on. Participating in a firefight with Al Qaeda against American forces, while not exactly a crime in the technical sense, is a pretty stupid smurfing thing to do and you can bet your ass that that kind of stupidity is going to have consequences.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

no trial,

Why the hell should there be? He was there and that's pretty much all we need to know.

ShnickyShnack wrote:

no lawyer,

What? Do you even read your own links? I thawt you wuz a jernalist.

While Khadr's supporters have claimed for years he was tortured in custody, his lawyers say the latest revelations have finally caught the attention of a Canadian public that's growing less willing to sacrifice human rights in the name of national security.

(emphasis added)

That's right ... lawyers, as in plural, which sort of implies that he has more than one. Whenever I've had a brush with the law I was lucky to have one smurfing lawyer. How does this scumbag terrorist sonofabitch rate better legal representation than I do? I don't suppose his ties to the bin Laden family have anything to do with that, do they?

no information --

Looks to me like there's plenty of information about him floating around, or we wouldn't be discussing him, would we?

but it's reasonable to lock him away at an extralegal detention centre?

No, that's just costing us taxpayers money every time he eats, the fat smurfer. It would have been more reasonable to just dump him in the Atlantic from whatever ship carried his sorry ass to Cuba from Afghanistan and be done with the whole debate.

Listen, BUSH has TIES to the Bin Laden family.

Bush has placed troops lives at risk.

Yeah he's doing it over there so they won't have to do it over here.

ScifiterX wrote:

Yeah he's doing it over there so they won't have to do it over here.

BRING IT ON!!

Call me un-American, but shooting at US troops as they invade your farm / province / country isn't a terrible crime.  And its not like the US has bombed many innocent civilians in Afghanistan, to really rile up people.


Besides, look at Iraq, the American government is arming Sunni groups that used to attack our troops.

I don't believe that the video has yet been posted. So, here it is