The Life and Times of Omar Khadr

The ferocious devotion to Omar Khadr evinced by his lead lawyer, Lt. Cmdr. William (Bill) Kuebler: http://www.thestar.com/article/592461 may perhaps speak to the character of Mr. Khadr, as it manifests to those around him. But it doesn't matter.

Nor does it matter that Canadian Foreign Affairs officials Jim Gould and Scott Heatherington acted as lackeys for a foreign power and looked the other way when a Canadian legal minor was "softened up" through serious sleep and environment deprivation, for the stated purpose of being "interrogated" by Jim Gould and an unnamed CSIS official at the behest of that foreign power - which had even stated to them that it "did not expect to get much" out of the interrogations: http://cid-0bcdffb6f4cf5aab.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Omar%20Khadr%20Records/CSIS%20Report%20on%20Khadr%20interrogations.pdf

It doesn't matter that, during the time that Canada was being told by the U.S. that there was no torture at Guantanamo, FBI witnesses were in fact reporting on numerous cases of torture: http://cid-0bcdffb6f4cf5aab.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Omar%20Khadr%20Records/FBI%20Report%20Guantanamo%20Detainees.pdf

It doesn't matter that Stephen Harper's reasons for not repatriating Omar Khadr are specious and fly in the face of last May's ruling by the Canada Supreme Court that: the Charter of Rights applies to Omar; the U.S. seriously violated those rights; Canada was "complicit" in the violations of those rights; and Canada "owes no deference" to the U.S. judicial processes at Guantanamo with respect to Omar Khadr: http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2008/2008scc28/2008scc28.pdf

It doesn't matter that exactly the wrong person got elected as U.S. president - as far as Omar Khadr is concerned. (John McCain had said he would repatriate Omar if asked to do so by Canada).

It doesn't matter that even ultra-hawk Charles D. (Cully) Stimson has backed off of his long-held position that there was no torture at Guantanamo: http://blog.heritage.org/2009/01/22/morning-bell-beyond-guantanamo/

Certainly it doesn't matter that Omar was a very young child when his al Qaeda father dragged him off to Afghanistan. And it doesn't matter that the evidence purporting to show he killed Sgt. Speer may well be tainted: http://fakirscanada.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!BCDFFB6F4CF5AAB!505.entry
http://www.thestar.com/article/345838
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/OC-1_CITF_witness_report

Omar Khadr isn't coming back to Canada. Ever.

And anyone who wants to believe that 'luck' is an abstract concept, a random collision between possibility and prob-ability, and that 'fate' is just an old wives' tale - should take a long and penetrating look at the life and times of Omar Khadr. Because Omar Khadr has no luck at all.