Some lies really are damned hard to kill. In a Reuters story which, incidentally, reports John Baird acknowledging that Omar Khadr is back in Canada sooner than expected because of American pressure, there is this:
Khadr, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to murdering a U.S. army medic with a grenade in a Afghan firefight in 2002...
One more time and probably not for the last time: SFC Christopher Speer was a special forces soldier. He was trained as a paramedic in addition to his combat training and by several accounts I've read, he took his medical training quite seriously. But on the day in which he suffered the wounds which led to his death, he was in the field as a combat soldier on a reconnaissance patrol. He was not — I repeat NOT — wearing any insignia which would identify him as being entitled to any special protection under the laws of war.
In the context of describing the events of July 27, 2002 it's simply misleading to describe Speer only as "a U.S. army medic." But doing so has been encouraged by Khadr's critics because it makes Speer a more sympathetic character and thus demonizes Khadr even further: What a horrible terrorist! He killed a guy who was out there trying to save lives!
Bollocks! For all we know, if Speer had seen Khadr first that day, it might be Khadr who had died. Would Speer have been charged if that had happened?
Quite right, pogge.
One more thing: The demonizers (Toews leading the pack with Nancy Wilson holding his coat) keep referring to Khadr as being convicted. According to the harpercons, along with a number of other folks who should know better, he is a "convicted terrorist".
Nonsense. Faced with a kangaroo court where all rule of law was absent, Omar quite wisely copped a plea. BIG difference. There is far more evidence to show that he did absolutely nothing than there is to show that he killed Speer. The reason that our neighbours south of the Medicine Line did NOT try him in a regular court of law? They knew full well that the case would be thrown out at the first hearing.
For those who have not yet done so, I strongly recommend watching the documentary "You Don't Like The Truth".
Maybe do some reading, too.
I never tire of complaining about Sgt. Speer being represented as a mild mannered medic that was murdered by the young, INJURED Khadr. He was not wearing his medic hat that day and was operating as a combat soldier with instruction to mop up what remained of the compound after his unit had ordered up an aerial bombardment.
I remember tracking down the initial incident report on Voice of America. It was pretty much straightforward, reporting the number of dead and injured (enemy and US troops). Khadr was not known as the son of senior Khadr aka close OBL cooperative at the time and was just considered an enemy casualty. Sometime during the 3-month interrogations at Baghram airport they got wind of who Omar was and it became an international news item. Hard to tell whether that saved him or not. But it certainly explains how he was exploited to make Canadians more fearful of Islamic extremists within our midst.
It is amazing that the Americans kill indiscriminately civilians and 'terrorists' alike and defend themselves because they didn't know who was there. And yet, in the heat of battle they can state without question who killed one of their own??? Khadr should be signed up by a baseball team. With that accuracy while being injured he would excel in baseball???
No one mentions the torture Khadr went through to get his 'confession'.
This is nothing more than another attempt to frighten Canadians into believing that there is a 'terrorist' among us. Wait for the false flag op when Khadr is released. Of course we are supposed to ignore the fact that that killer who beheaded that bus passenger is not a terrorist?? If we opened our minds we would know that our courts and our governments are the real terrorists in Canada.
Khadr is a very stron young man. I wish him all the best.