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The following is excerpted from The Globe and Mail article Canada blames U.S. for delay in transferring Omar Khadr by Colin Perkel.
The Canadian government is defending itself against allegations it is deliberately dragging its feet in allowing Omar Khadr to return from Guantanamo Bay by arguing much of the delay is the fault of the Americans, new court documents show.
In an affidavit filed in response to a Federal Court application by Mr. Khadr’s lawyers, a senior public safety official cites two main reasons for the lack of a decision to the application for Mr. Khadr to serve out his sentence in Canada – something he was eligible to do starting in October 2011.
The first reason cited was a delay in Washington’s approval of the transfer – granted only this past spring.
The second reason was Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ request for sealed videos of mental assessments of the inmate done for military prosecutors – apparently only discovered in February through media reports.
Mr. Khadr, who pleaded guilty to five crimes including murder in violation of the rules of war before a widely discredited military commission in October 2010, applied to transfer to Canada in April last year.
Further Reading
Omar Khadr, Oh Canada
Edited by Janice Williamson
In Omar Khadr, Oh Canada, over thirty contributors analyze Khadr's background, his incarceration, the actions of Canadian authorities, and the implications raised by his legal case. This multi-genre book includes essays, articles, poems, a play, extended excerpts from the documentary film You Don't Like the Truth, and other texts produced by distinguished contributors such as Sherene Razack, General Roméo Dallaire, Charles Foran, Kim Echlin, Judith Thompson, Audrey Macklin, Shadia Drury, George Elliott Clarke, Maher Arar, Rick Salutin, and Sheema Khan. While they sometimes disagree on issues such as radical Islam and Canadian multiculturalism, they all write from the conviction that Khadr's treatment has been – and continues to be – shamefully unjust and shaped by post 9/11 Islamophobia that continues to distort the views of many Canadians.
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