Al Qaeda's son wants his CDN Passport.

Khadr lawyer says passport denial violates rights
Canadian Press

TORONTO — A prominent Toronto civil rights lawyer says Ottawa's decision to deny Abdurahman Khadr a Canadian passport is a violation of his Charter rights.

Khadr's lawyer, Clayton Ruby, is asking a Federal Court judge to overturn the decision and issue his client a passport.

Ruby says former foreign affairs minister Bill Graham's decision to intervene and deny Khadr's 2004 application was "disgraceful" and inconsistent with the constitution.

Khadr won the right last year to fight the federal government in court after being denied a passport because of national security concerns and a potentially negative public reaction.

Khadr was detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as an American agent and returned to Canada in December 2003, after working for a brief time for the CIA.

He says he grew up in an "al Qaeda family" and was counselled by his father to become a suicide bomber.

The Khadrs are all Canadian citizens and have had a strained relationship with Canadian officials since it was revealed that the family's patriarch, Ahmed Said, was a close associate of Osama bin Laden.

He was killed in a gun battle with U.S.-led coalition forces in Pakistan in October 2003.

One of Khadr's brothers, Karim, was paralyzed during the incident in which his father was killed, and returned to Canada after a high-profile campaign by his family in April 2004.

Another brother, Omar Khadr, 19, faces the death penalty if convicted by a special U.S. military tribunal for the killing of a U.S. soldier during a firefight in Afghanistan.

Foreign Affairs gave Khadr $1,000 for "reimbursement of passport fees" after federal officials admitted they made a mistake in denying him a passport.

Gee. Let's not let those Euro-doctors or hard working Romanian strippers in, let's give it to this guy. Maybe we could send him to Israel to pick up a CDN passport.link

Stealing someone else's schtick is not cool, man.

Can someone explain to me why non-Canadians have Canadian Charter rights when they're not even in Canada yet?

Do I have Canadian Charter rights? :?:

1) The guy is a Canadian citizen, he has a right to his passport. End of story.

2) The fact that his brother faces the death penalty for killing an American Soldier IN A FIREFIGHT is a joke. It's not a crime, it's an act of war. The same principal applies to American Soldiers who kill Taliban or Al Qaeda.

Why did the US let him go?

If he is a Canadian citizen then he is entitled to a passport.

Whether he deserves one in another matter.