the blog quebecois

Toronto Star:

A growing number of Canadians are calling on the Conservative government to bring Omar Khadr home from the notorious U.S. detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to an a survey from Angus Reid Strategies.

That's music to the ears of Khadr's lawyer Dennis Edney, given that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other federal cabinet ministers won't demand the Canadian citizen be released from Guantanamo, as other countries have done for their own detainees.

"Khadr is a pawn in this whole game of the war on terrorism. I see him as a political prisoner ... Canada hasn't done a thing for him," said the Edmonton lawyer, who met yesterday with U.S. military lawyers appointed to defend Khadr.

Khadr was captured in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was just 15, after a firefight with U.S. forces.

Well, that's one way of putting it. Another way of putting it is that he ambushed and killed an American Special Forces soldier (most press accounts describe Sgt. Christopher Speer as a medic, which he was indeed trained as; though not acting in that capacity while leading his squad through a bombed-out compound).

The survey of 1,028 people found that 51 per cent believe Ottawa should actively intervene to secure Khadr's release, up from 40 per cent just two weeks ago, said Craig Worden, vice-president, public affairs at Angus Reid.

Who are these people? Everyone that I've talked to is in agreement that the traitorous little bastard can rot where he is. We're already paying enough in welfare for the rest of his useless family.