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This is an article that has many great points about the erosion of human rights in Canada and the US.

James Travers of The Star - Khadr case hands terrorists unearned victory

OTTAWA—Omar Khadr is scaring us silly. Fear and loathing of the man and the extremism he was recruited to serve is more destructive than bombs to the freedoms open societies claim to hold dear.

By trampling defining legal and human rights, the U.S. and Canada are handing terrorists a victory they could never have won alone. Sooner rather than later Khadr will return home having exposed our rubbery confidence in values that have guided enlightened democracies through crises for nearly 800 years.

That’s quite an accomplishment for a teenager misled into combat by a lunatic father. It couldn’t have been achieved without our help.

If we are fighting a war on terror then we have just shot ourselves in the foot. Failures by the U.S. to uphold judicial principles and by Canada to safeguard a citizen’s fundamental rights only reinforce the energizing jihadist notion that western democracies are fatally weak and hopelessly corrupt.

Read the rest of the article here -http://www.thestar.com/specialsections/omarkhadr/oped/article/884347--travers-khadr-case-hands-terrorists-unearned-victory

Well, AFAIK the Canadian public opinion in Omar case is mostly negative most of them feel he sould not return and should have been locked forever. Even his family is very hated from what I hear.

I feel Khadr did what was in his best intrest seeing the circumstances and pleaded guilty, for eight years now he has maintained his innocence by saying he didn't lob the gerneade killing speers. Now he just has to serve another year then he'll be moved to Canada where I hear very soon he'll be paroled as he was a minor during the time of the offence.

The hap hazardly put together court and legal procedings were a sham, judge judys court is more legitimate than this military tribunal.