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    November 29

    List of references for the 'To Bring Omar Home Or Not - the Facts' video

    [April 02, 2009 update:  the video referred to in the heading is about to go bye-bye.  New info and insights necessitate a major revision, forthcoming very soon, I hope.  In the meantime, I have provided info from the video to the references below, to give them a context even in the absence of the video]: 
     
    In the 'Omar Khadr Records" folder to the left, you will find many of the most striking records on the subject - such as the FBI report on the treatment of prisoners at Gitmo; and the combined U.S. and Cdn. "Foreign Affairs" reports, which I have cynically labelled "CSIS Report...." - as well as the autopsy reports of the two prisoners who  were murdered at Bagram, the 2007 and 2008 Canadian high court cases involving Omar, and so on.
     
    Here is the List of References cited on the video, plus a few other items of interest:
     
    From the video: 
    Omar Khadr is charged with the throwing the grenade that killed U.S. Marine Sgt. Speer on July 27, 2002.  Michelle Shephard, National Security Reporter for the Toronto Star, and her colleague, Carla Rosenberg, reporter for the Miami Herald, were accidentally given copies of a U.S. DOD report on the fire-fight which stated that Sgt. Speer's killer had died in the firefight: 
    Reference (1): 
    Statements made by Michelle Shephard at the November 08, 2008 Edmonton rally in support Omar Khadr's repatriation
     
    Omar Khadr was shot in the back in the firefight that killed Sgt. Speer: 
    Reference (2):
    see also:
     
    Omar Khadr was grilled for three years before he was charged with anything, according to one of his Canadian lawyers, Dennis Edney.  The reference below is no longer available, however I intend to explore this and other statements made by Omar Khadr's assorted legal counsel in my upcoming video on Omar Khadr and the 4th Element.
     Reference (3):
    see clauses 01 through 13 in:  (February 25 update:  I have just learned that this link is broken.  I have inquired into this.)
    (March 14, 2009 update.  This reference is no longer available.  Marnie Tunay  Fakirs Canada)
     
    Omar Khadr was subjected to various forms of abuses.  See the references below and also, especially, Reference 20, which provides conclusive proof:
    Reference (4):
    see also:
    this record is also available in the Omar Khadr Records folder to the left of this blog
     
    Two high court rulings, one by the Canadian Supremes and one by the Feds, affirms that the Charter of Rights applies to Omar, the U.S. abused those rights and Canadian officials were "complicit" in at least some of those abuses:
    Reference (5):
    This reference is also available in the Omar Khadr Records folder to the left of this blog
     
    Reference (6):
    (This reference is also available in the <Omar Khadr Records> Folder to the left of this blog.)
     
    Reference (7):
     
    Reference (8):
     
    Reference (9):
    and see references for (8)
     
    Reference (10):
     
    Reference (11):
     
    Reference (12):
     
    Reference (13):
     
    Reference (14):
     
    Reference (15):
     
    Reference (16):
     
    Reference (17):
     
    Reference (18):
     
    Reference (19):
     
     Reference (19) (2):  See pages 15, 39 and 90 for chilling accounts of torture at GITMO, as recounted by FBI eye-witnesses:
    This report is also in the Omar Khadr Records Folder to the left of this Blog:
    Be warned: this is a huge, 5MB, file
     
    Reference (20):  This makes for grim reading.  It establishes that Canadian officials "interrogated" Omar Khadr at the behest of U.S. officials - who had even stated that they did not expect "to get much out of the interrogations."  Moreover, the report signed by then-Foreign Affairs Intelligence chief Scott Heatherington records the admission that "the Canadian delegation" knew in advance of those interrogations that Omar Khadr had been subjected to serious sleep and environment deprivations for one month with the stated purpose of "softening him up" for the Canadian delegation:
     
    Reference (21):  Every other western country with citizens in GITMO, including Britain, France, Austria and Germany, demanded and got their repatriation.  Moreover, Canada is the only western country that has not officially condemned the patent lack of due process at GITMO:
     
    Reference (22):  There have been many credible reports of rights abuses at GITMO:
    Military commissions "rigged" according to prosecutors
     
     
    June 22, 2009 update:  Here is a list of my most recent posts regarding Omar Khadr, and Stephen Harper's dilemma re the same:
         
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    Marnie Tunaywrote:
    The video "To Bring Omar Khadr Home or Not - the Facts" - is on its way out the door today. By midnight tonight I expect to have removed it from the Videos folder on this site and from YouTube as well. I no longer hold some of the views I expressed in the video, on account of new info and new insight. I intend to re-do and re-publish the video as "Omar Khadr: Facts, Law, Morals and the 4th Element" - just as soon as I finish the post on Peter Martin. In the meantime, as time permits tonight, I will bring the corresponding elements from the video into this post, so that the references make sense without the video.
    Apr. 1
    Marnie Tunaywrote:
    reply to T8Tube.com are you asking about justice for Omar Khadr? It is out of our hands. See: http://fakirsca.blogspot.com/2009/02/life-and-times-of-omar-khadr.html
    There is nothing you can do about this. But thank you for your concern.
    Mar. 12
    T8tube.comwrote:
    justice？
    Mar. 12

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