[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Cowards are a better word for these guys ...snivilling cowards..
Especially on a day when three more Canadian soldiers were injured by an IED in Afganistan....
Turn them over to the US authorities..they know how to deal with them...
Here is another batch they can take with them....

Abdullah Khadr formally charged with 4 counts in U.S. terrorism case
19:11:34 EST Feb 8, 2006
BETH GORHAM



WASHINGTON (CP) - Canadian Abdullah Khadr was formally charged Wednesday in the United States with allegedly buying weapons for al-Qaida and plotting to murder Americans.

Khadr, 24, has been in a Toronto jail since he was arrested Dec. 17 at the request of U.S. officials who filed a criminal complaint in Boston and issued an arrest warrant for his extradition.

A federal grand jury indictment was the next step in the U.S. legal process.

"Our efforts to identify and capture alleged terrorists who seek to kill Americans here and abroad transcend all borders," said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

"Today's indictment sends the message to terrorists around the world that we will go to great lengths to bring justice to those who provide al-Qaida and other terrorists with the weapons to carry out their deadly and evil goals."

Khadr faces charges that he conspired to kill Americans overseas, conspired to use weapons of mass destruction, conspired to possess a destructive device to commit violent crimes and possession of the device.

If convicted, he could get life in prison plus 30 years and a $1 million US fine.

He still needs to have an extradition hearing in Canada before he can be tried in a Massachusetts District Court.

His lawyer, Dennis Edney, said from Edmonton that Gonzales went too far and has raised questions about whether the United States is prepared to respect Canadian sovereignty.

"You have the U.S. attorney general announcing to the American public that Mr. Khadr is a terrorist," he said.

"The Canadian government ought to be concerned about the ability of (Khadr) to be able to get a fair trial in the U.S.A."

The indictment alleges that Khadr helped his late father, Egyptian-born Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr, by buying weapons during a five-month period in 2003 for planned attacks against U.S. forces in the border area of Afghanistan near Shagai, Pakistan.

The grand jury says he bought ammunition for machine-guns, rocket-propelled grenades, rockets, mortar rounds and containers of hydrogen peroxide for use in making mines.

Khadr distributed the munitions to al-Qaida fighters and continued buying efforts after his father was killed by Pakistani forces in October 2003, says the indictment. It also contends that he tried to purchase missiles from a Pakistani in 2004.

The indictment, announced in Boston, adds that Khadr's father was a trusted associate of Osama bin Laden and the family visited his compound outside of Jalalabad in 1997 and 1998.

An Ontario judge denied bail for Khadr while he awaits his extradition hearing, saying he is a flight risk and a risk to public safety.

The judge noted he once said in a television interview that he wanted to die as a martyr for Islam.

An RCMP affidavit says Khadr admitted to investigators at a Pakistani jail that he bought weapons for al-Qaida and admitted to taking part in a plan to assassinate that country's prime minister.

He says he was tortured and visited several times by CSIS and RCMP officers.

Khadr was held at the jail without charge from October 2004 until his release late last year, when he returned to Canada.

The Khadr family has provoked intense debate in Canada. Each of the five Khadr siblings, all of whom are Canadian citizens, has at one time or another been separately accused or investigated for alleged links to terrorism.

Omar Khadr, 19, is the only Canadian held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He's charged with aiding al-Qaida and murdering a U.S. medic in Afghanistan in July 2002. He faces a special military tribunal system for alleged terrorists that has been widely attacked as unfair.