Thursday, April 23, 2009

Ottawa's April 23 order from the Federal Court to request Omar Khadr's repatriation

If I am wrong in my predictions: http://fakirscanada.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/23/2724654-canada-ordered-to-seek-omar-khadrs-repatriation ,
about the results of that order [here is a copy of the order]:

http://cid-0bcdffb6f4cf5aab.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Omar%20Khadr%20Records/09%20April%2023%20Repatriation%20Request%20Order.pdf

then, at the very least:

Ottawa should take a hard look at the crowd on the podium backing Dennis Edney's "repatriation plan" at his February 11, 2009 "news conference:"
http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&pagetype=vod&lang=e&clipID=2362

- the same crowd that would, according to Dennis, be responsible for implementing the plan and paying for it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Boudjenane - who suggests on the above CPAC video at 1:19-20 hours that the terrorism charges against the "Toronto 18":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Toronto_terrorism_case were solely a case of "us" [the Harper government] against "them" [Muslims]; and who refers to Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney as "Stephen Harper's minion" at 1:20:37 hours on the CPAC video [above].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zafar_Bangash who comes across in the CPAC video as a courteous and restrained individual - but who refused to talk to me about the "repatriation plan" and his role in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Islamic_Congress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Arab_Federation

And then there's Dennis Edney: did you get the impression from statements he's made that Omar Khadr could stand trial under Canadian law? Check out this CTV article: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080710/khadr_harper_080710/20080710/
in which he slams Stephen Harper for saying that "Canada has no real alternative to the U.S. legal system" - and now check out his statement at 1:13:53 on that CPAC video from February 11, where Edney says: "I cannot see this government having any standing to press charges against Omar Khadr."

In a video posted on Shia TV at the end of December, 2008:

http://www.shiatv.net/view_video.php?viewkey=4da038a06f675d1693dd

Dennis Edney says at 59:12 minutes: "We have sufficient provisions in our Criminal Code to deal with the extraterritorial activity of a Canadian abroad who is alleged to have commit-ted terrorism offences."

I get the impression from the above that Dennis Edney will say and do whatever he thinks it will take to get what he wants.

At 58:73 in the Shia video, he suggests that Omar Khadr has been left in GITMO because "he is a young Canadian Muslim."

In another talk Edney gave on February 12, 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AC_vAa3SoQ
he states that he believes "there is an inherent racism" against Islam in Canadian society.

Oh, yeah, I trust the above-named to "rehabilitate" Omar Khadr.

(With thanks to Dennis Edney for sending me a copy of the repatriation order.)

April 26 update: After a great deal of thought, I have decided to publish some of my email correspondence with Dennis Edney, dating from December, 2008 and from February, 2009. It hasn't been easy to come to this decision. I've worried a lot that nobody will ever feel confident in speaking their thoughts to me online again. But I have finally realized that if I was one of the good people who are presently mobilizing in support of Dennis Edney and his repatriation plan for Omar Khadr, (I know this because Dennis sent an email to a number of them and included me, which revealed all of our identities and email addresses to each other), if I was one of those supporters, especially the Christian ones, then I would want to know what Dennis said in those emails, in particular, I would want to know his stated views on Christians.
Here are the links to that correspondence in PDF and in Word:

http://cid-0bcdffb6f4cf5aab.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Omar%20Khadr%20Records/Emails%20with%20Dennis%20Edney%20on%20Islam%20and%20terrorism.pdf

http://cid-0bcdffb6f4cf5aab.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Omar%20Khadr%20Records/Emails%20with%20Dennis%20Edney%20on%20Islam%20and%20terrorism.docx

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