MacKay says he’s raised Khadr case with U.S. counterpart

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Source: The Canadian Press

Published: Wednesday, June 13, 2007

OTTAWA — Canada’s foreign minister says he has made several requests on behalf of a prisoner detained at Guantanamo Bay and accused by the U.S. government of being a terrorist.

Peter MacKay said Wednesday that he contacted his American counterpart Condoleezza Rice last week about the case of Omar Khadr, the 20-year-old who has been in jail since he was 15. ~snip~

Read more: http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d6e4bcd5-60a0-4667-a8bb-c33bb8d186a1&k=64763

[Kagemusha]

1. And got told to pound sand, I'm sure.

What else would she tell him.

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2. Or maybe she treated him to her trade-mark bobble-headed say-nothing yakety-yak

[GliderGuider]

3. consular access??!!

So McKay says:

“I asked specifically about his well-being and for a medical and psychological assessment to be done,” MacKay added. “We’re going to continue to provide consular access as we do in the case of all Canadians.”

Yeah. Right.
Ask http://www.maherarar.ca/mahers%20story.php">Maher Arar and http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sampson/">William Samson about consular access.
:puke:

:mad:

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4. "The kid has been there five years now, and the tribunal just threw out

the case against him. Gosh! Someone is bound to ask me about this. I really must do something. But what? ... Oh, I know! I shall drop Condi a little note reminding her that someday we might insist on consular access!"