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Canada drops bid to return ex-Guantanamo inmate Khadr to jail

Published 2016-02-18, 06:40 p/m
© Reuters. Canada drops bid to return ex-Guantanamo inmate Khadr to jail

OTTAWA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The new Canadian Liberal
government on Thursday dropped a bid to return former Guantanamo
Bay inmate Omar Khadr to jail, and said the Canadian citizen
should remain free while he appealed his murder conviction by a
U.S. military tribunal.
Khadr, now about 29 and once the youngest inmate in the
special U.S. jail, was returned to the Canadian province of
Alberta in 2012 to serve the rest of his sentence for killing a
U.S. soldier.
An Alberta court ruled that he could be released on bail and
he left jail last May. The then right-of-center Conservative
government challenged that court's decision on the grounds that
his release would hurt relations with the United States.
"The government of Canada respects the decision of the
(Alberta) court ... which determined that Mr. Khadr be released
on bail in Canada pending his U.S. appeal of his U.S.
convictions and sentence," Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale
said on Thursday in a statement with Justice Minister Jody
Wilson-Raybould.
Khadr had pleaded guilty to charges that included murdering
a U.S. Army medic in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, when
Khadr was 15. He later recanted, saying he pled guilty to get
out of the Guantanamo base in Cuba.
Canadian-born Khadr was taken to Afghanistan by his father,
a senior al Qaeda member who apprenticed the boy to a group of
bomb makers who opened fire when U.S. troops came to their
compound. Khadr was captured in the firefight, during which he
was blinded in one eye and shot twice in the back.


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