
A young
Arab-Canadian guy is back home after months being detained in
Guantanamo Bay Camp.
Abdul-Rahman Khadr is from an
Egyptian father and a
Palestinian mother and is only 20. When he arrived at
Lester L. Pearson International Airport and it was shown on
CBC - he said he was innocent and the only reason he had been arrested in
Kabul and was sent to the camp was because he was originally
Arab. But there was another report in
The National tonight and he
admitted that he had been trained in
Afghanistan!! He revealed it in a press conference while sitting beside his lawyer. A reporter asked him: Was it an
Al-Qaeda training camp? He answered: No. It was an
Al-Qaeda related camp(!!!)
His father was a
Taliban financial supporter.
Afghans told the
CBC reporter that he had packed and left
Kabul just one day before Northern Alliance freed the city(!!) The family used to live in
Ontario but they moved to
Afghanistan when
Soviets invaded the country, in order to support the Holy War. His younger brother,
Omar, 15, is still in
Americans' custody in the Camp.
The US has recently begun to free few prisoners from the camp in
Cuba. There are hundreds of them there from 42 different countries, without any charge and legal rights.
(Photo: Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The US has occupied it since 1903 and pay $4000 annually as rent!)