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		<title>A Terrorist&#8217;s Canadian Homecoming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Khadr’s return to Canada raises serious questions about Obama's role.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/OmarKhadr1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-146988" title="OmarKhadr" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/OmarKhadr1.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="240" /></a>Ezra Levant in an op-ed in a <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, “<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444592404578028600592805828.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Out of Guantanamo and Into a Canadian Prison,”</a> raises some unanswered  questions about  who and why a deal was cut between the Obama Administration and the Harper Government in Ottawa.</p>
<blockquote><p>Two years ago this month, a Guantanamo Bay military jury sentenced a Canadian-born al Qaeda terrorist to 40 years in prison. Omar Khadr was convicted of war crimes in Afghanistan, including the killing, during an ambush, of a 28-year-old U.S. Special Forces medic named Christopher Speer, the father of two young children.</p>
<p>But what the jury didn&#8217;t know was that, even as they were deliberating the charges of &#8220;murder in violation of the law of war, attempted murder in violation of the law of war, conspiracy, providing material support for terrorism, and spying,&#8221; Pentagon prosecutors had already struck a plea-bargain deal with Khadr, at the direction of Obama administration officials.</p>
<p>No public explanation for the deal has ever been given.</p></blockquote>
<p>In an <em>Iconoclast blog </em><a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/119419/sec_id/119419">post</a> on the US flight that delivered Khadr to a Federal Canadian prison last Saturday, we noted Canadian counterterrorism expert David B. Harris’ comments on the reasons behind Khadr’s release by the Obama administration in an August<em> New English Review</em> <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/119419/sec_id/119419">interview</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>However, one of the disturbing considerations in this particular situation, especially given the animus reserved by a great many Canadians for the currently imprisoned Omar Khadr, is the suggestion that the Canadian government may be bowing to pressure from the Obama White House to repatriate Khadr. According to various reports, the White House is desperately interested in reducing the number of people currently being held at Guantanamo. It is supposed that this pressure from the Obama Administration is politically motivated and stems from Mr. Obama’s preoccupation with the approaching November elections. It remains to be seen what the details of any transfer agreement might amount to.</p></blockquote>
<p>We noted at the conclusion of <em>Iconoclast</em> post:</p>
<blockquote><p>Harris’s comments about President Obama’s desire to close the GITMO detention facility are prescient, given the  recently published list of   55 detainees, many of whom will likely return to terrorist activities, 31 others would be sent to third countries, leaving 167 detainees.</p></blockquote>
<p>All of which brings us back to what happened during the GITMO military tribunal during the summer and fall of 2010.</p>
<p>Many forget that Khadr&#8217;s trial was underway in August 2010, at a time that he and his advocates were claiming his innocence. Prosecutors, contrary to Levant&#8217;s WSJ article, had no interest in pleading the case, and were most confident in their case.</p>
<p>At the opening of proceedings, the defense made the dramatic gesture of putting up a photo of an allegedly grievously wounded Khadr to make the point that Khadr was too wounded to have killed Sgt. Christopher Speer. Minutes later, the Special Forces soldier who wounded Khadr after he killed Speer, <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/87683/sec_id">pointed out i</a>n precise and irrefutable detail how that seemingly compelling photo represented not Khadr, but killed al-Qaeda fighters on the scene. It was a decisive moment as the air was literally sucked out of the room of Omar Khadr&#8217;s defense. Yet this was virtually unreported by Khadr apologist Canadian media such as the <em>Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, CBC, Al Jazeera, The New York Times and Miami Herald. </em>That testimony effectively crushed the Khadr defense. Just as Military Tribunal Judge Parrish&#8217;s earlier ruling that Khadr&#8217;s confessions to interrogators would be admitted.</p>
<p>Minutes later, while the Special Forces soldier witness was still on the witness stand, defense counsel, Lt. Col. Jon Jackson <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/87683/sec_id">literally collapsed</a> in the middle of the courtroom. (In a bizarre scene, an emergency tech refused to administer to the stricken Lt. Col. Jackson because he was under specific orders to be at the courtroom only if something were to happen to Mr. Khadr). Jackson, an otherwise picture of strapping health who had been vigorous all day up to the point of his apparent collapse, then underwent &#8220;tests.&#8221; In the meantime, Judge Parrish suspended the proceedings until Jackson &#8220;returned to full health.&#8221; Over a month later, Jackson was still undergoing &#8220;tests’ for what turned out to be a <strong>‘</strong><a href="http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/sep/02/army-lt-col-jon-jackson-says-hell-return-guantanam/"><strong>gall bladder’</strong> operation.</a></p>
<p>In the interim, a confident prosecution, determined to prosecute Khadr for the murder of an American soldier, astonishingly agreed to a plea agreement with the Khadr defense team. This happenstance came from nowhere, and considering the escalating momentum of the Khadr prosecution, in a trial underway, it was, as Levant <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/ezra_levant/2010/11/01/15911951.html">wrote</a>, as if the United States had thrown the fight.</p>
<p>After all of the spin and misinformation about Khadr being brainwashed by his terrorist father, and allegedly  tortured by the Americans (who had saved his life and restored his health), Khadr pleaded guilty in great detail to being far more than a killer but an active adherent of al-Qaeda.</p>
<p>Dr. Michael Welner’s, detailed and comprehensive forensic psychiatric expert <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/87683/sec_id">testimony</a> was fully transparent and his video interview of Khadr supplemented an array of numerous collateral sources.  That materially rebutted Khadr’s defense and press apologists’ efforts to rebrand him, as a child warrior victim.</p>
<p>The same sentencing proceeding also featured a Khadr &#8220;apology&#8221; from the stand that was so unconvincing  that  defense counsel Jackson was compelled the next day, in court, to read another &#8220;apology,&#8221; in the Lt. Col&#8217;s own words.  The jury‘s verdict of a 40 year sentence was a rebuke of the defense effort and confirmation of Khadr’s admission of guilt as a jihadist terrorist.</p>
<p>Which returns us to the question: with a runaway verdict, why did the talented United States military prosecutors basically quit on a trial for Khadr &#8211; only to show the same determination at a sentencing proceeding? The answer is, because they answer to higher authorities in the Pentagon.</p>
<p>Clearly, someone in the Pentagon or in the Obama Administration intervened during the August suspension of the Khadr GITMO tribunal to force the shocking plea that included Khadr&#8217;s return to Canada.</p>
<p>So the mystery remains as to whom in the Pentagon hierarchy or Oval Office overrode the Military Tribunal and prosecution of the killer of an American soldier. Was it President Obama? Secretary Gates? Whoever it was, Sgt. Christopher Speer&#8217;s family as was Layne Morris, who had been wounded in a firefight, was denied justice.</p>
<p>Was the U.S. State Department so invested in forcing Canada to take Khadr back, knowing Canadian courts will likely parole him? All of this was agreed before anyone learned of the renowned Dr. Welner&#8217;s findings, which prompted Canada to react like any buyer of an erroneous bargain.</p>
<p>Was the intrusion into the military proceedings an abuse of executive powers aiding and abetting release of confirmed Jihadist terrorists, and contravening authorized military justice?</p>
<p>Given the answers to these and other fundamental questions, it would seem that this is grist for a Congressional oversight investigation and hearing.</p>
<p>Levant <a href="http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2012/10/20121001-071311.html">revealed</a> the writings of one of Canadian Foreign Ministry staff who shed tears of joy for the arrival in Canada of this former al Qaeda Jihadist. This was eerily similar to accounts of the U.S. State Department &#8220;observers&#8221; of the Khadr proceedings who essentially acted as Khadr defense cheerleaders. The Khadr legacy has been now trumped, perhaps fittingly.  The divide apparently remains between our military that defends this country against foreign Jihadis, and diplomatic  and  other government officials that all too frequently give aid and comfort to our enemies.</p>
<p>Our thoughts are with the Speer and Morris families, because the thoughts of Khadr and his benefactors in the Obama Administration are not.</p>
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		<title>Speak Out on Never Again Day &#8211; September 27th</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A call to action for individuals concerned over the absence of "red lines" for Iran. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Never-Again-Day-9-27-12-flyer.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-145412" title="Never-Again-Day-9-27-12-flyer" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Never-Again-Day-9-27-12-flyer.gif" alt="" width="375" height="416" /></a>Just before the onset of the Jewish New Year holy day of Rosh Hashanah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning to the world media that Iran has entered the red zone. That is a reference to IAEA reports confirming that Iran has accelerated nuclear enrichment at the Fordo cascade hall with thousands of centrifuges buried inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom.  Netanyahu drew attention to intelligence that, at the current pace, Iran will have enough fissile material for several nuclear bombs in less than six to seven months.  He has entreated President Obama and Secretaries Panetta at Defense and Clinton at State to set red lines beyond which possible military action might be taken against Iran’s nuclear weapons program.  Secretary of State Clinton has said in response to PM Netanyahu’s statement that the US will not set red lines. Panetta had earlier said that the US would act only when there is clear evidence that Iran is assembling a nuclear device.</p>
<p>Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak believe that waiting for Iran to assemble nuclear devices may be too late. Iran’s Supreme Leader, President Ahmadinejad and Revolutionary Guard commanders have publicly threatened to incinerate Israel in a nuclear attack-a second Holocaust.  Netanyahu has said &#8220;why wait?&#8221;  While he has spoken with President Obama about this urgent matter, the President has not yet scheduled a meeting with PM Netanyahu during the 67th UN General Assembly session that recently opened in New York City.</p>
<p>In an interview with NBC’s David Gregory on Meet The Press on Sunday, September 16th, Netanyahu remarked:</p>
<blockquote><p>I heard some people suggest, David, I actually read this in the American press. They said, &#8220;Well, you know, if you take action, that&#8217;s a lot worse than having Iran with nuclear weapons.&#8221; Some have even said that Iran with nuclear weapons would stabilize the Middle East. I think the people who say this have set a new standard for human stupidity.</p></blockquote>
<p>(<a href="http://youtu.be/HSK_0eFwI5M">Watch</a> the Meet the Press interview with PM Netanyahu.)</p>
<p>The crocodiles are gathering once again at the UN General Assembly to feed on Israel.</p>
<p>On the 25th Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority will introduce a resolution seeking declaration of an illegal Palestinian state. On the 26th, while Jews around the world are observing the holiday of Yom Kippur, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will once again ascend the rostrum at the General Assembly to denounce the United States and threaten the Jewish State of Israel with nuclear annihilation. As usual groups from the northeastern US will rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in Manhattan protesting these attempts to extinguish Israel’s existence with little more than local New York regional news coverage. That is why a group of activists are calling for rallies in communities across the US on what they have called &#8220;Never Again Day&#8221; September 27th, the day following the conclusion of the Holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur.</p>
<p>Here is what you can do.</p>
<p><strong>Rally in your communities at Noon on September 27, 2012 &#8211; Never Again Day</strong></p>
<p>This year, you can make a difference that has a global impact by acting locally. September 27th has been designated as Never Again Day.  On that day, no matter where you are, groups are being called upon to gather in front of the local campaign offices of President Obama and register your concerns. The President must understand that the American people demand better treatment of Israel and wish to fight against threats to its existence. We must call upon the President to immediately establish “Red Lines” and end all sanction exemptions for Iran’s trading partners.</p>
<p>By sacrificing your lunch hour on the 27th and going to local Obama for President campaign offices you can draw local media attention all across this county.  We urge you to reach out to like-minded friends of America and Israel in your community and ask them to gather with you to make your voice heard.</p>
<p>Go to the <a href="http://neveragainday.com/">NeverAgainDay.com</a> or <a href="http://facebook.com/neveragainday">facebook.com/neveragainday</a> to find the location of the President Obama campaign office in your locality, and keep checking in for updates.   You will find further information to spread the word about this unique means of protesting the world’s indifference to the threats to America and Israel’s existence.  By rallying at President Obama’s local campaign offices you will send an important message to President Obama.</p>
<p>Remember the date and time: September 27, 2012, at Noon in your respective time zones to rally at local Obama for President campaign offices on Never Again Day.</p>
<p>Has there been a precedent for such a nationwide call to action regarding Israel?  Nine years ago this writer was one of a group of activists who assembled rallies at local National Public Radio outlets across the US protesting alleged biases in reporting on Israel and Middle East issues. Rallies were held in more than three dozen locations throughout the US. Did that call to action work?  The one-day protest caught the attention of the media and NPR programming officials. Those officials tried to persuade the organizers that NPR provided fair and balanced coverage. For more than two weeks following the protest events, they received phone calls and emails from the NPR Vice President for news.  To this day we remain unconvinced about NPR’s Israel news coverage.  Nevertheless, clearly the protesters had touched a nerve.</p>
<p>On September 27th at Noon join fellow citizens at the local campaign offices for President Obama.  Protest the Obama administration’s refusal to establish “red lines” for action against a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic of Iran.  Iran’s leaders have threatened to use nuclear weapons to incinerate Israel in a second Holocaust and disable America with an electronic magnetic pulse attack.  Think that Iran’s leaders are rational?   Reza Kahlili, an ex-CIA agent whose knows them, <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/122379/sec_id/122379">says</a> they are “crazy.”  Note what he <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/122379/sec_id/122379">said</a> in a recent interview:</p>
<blockquote><p>I believe that because of their belief in the end of times and that the time is close at hand for Imam Mahdi to re-appear, they will get the bomb. They will use the bomb. They will destroy Israel. They will collapse the global economy. They believe at that time the Shiite 12th Imam will reappear and conquer the world for Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p>For directions to the Obama campaign offices in your area go to <a href="http://neveragainday.com/">NeverAgainDay.com.  </a></p>
<p>By rallying at President Obama’s local campaign offices you will send an important message to President Obama to act before it is too late. So on September 27th join others concerned about stopping a nuclear Iran and rally at the Obama campaign office near you.</p>
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