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Khawaja appeals terror convictions
April 9, 2009 – 10:33 am | No Comment
Khawaja appeals terror convictions

By Andrew Duffy, Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA – Ottawa’s Momin Khawaja has launched an appeal of his six terrorism-related convictions and the 10 1/2-year sentence imposed for those crimes.
Khawaja’s sentence came in addition to the five years …

ANALYSIS – Six years on, Khadr’s fate more uncertain than ever
April 8, 2009 – 5:13 pm | No Comment
ANALYSIS – Six years on, Khadr’s fate more uncertain than ever

By Michelle Shephard
National Security Reporter,
The Toronto Star
ANALYSIS
Omar Khadr’s military lawyer was fired last Friday. Five days later, he was re-instated by a Guantanamo judge.
Navy Lt.-Cmdr. William Kuebler had appealed his dismissal, arguing that his superior …

Toronto Star Editorial – Surreal security case
April 7, 2009 – 4:30 am | No Comment
Toronto Star Editorial – Surreal security case

Whatever it is about Abousfian Abdelrazik that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government seems to want to sweep under the table, it is past time that Parliament took a hard, close look at the case.
Abdelrazik is …

OPINION: PM feared Galloway’s message, By Linda McQuaig
April 7, 2009 – 4:30 am | No Comment
OPINION: PM feared Galloway’s message, By Linda McQuaig

By Linda McQuaig
Anyone who has ever seen George Galloway in action knows why he had to be stopped at the border. He definitely poses a threat – although not the security one alleged by the …

A break-in, a slaying, a Khadr marriage mystery
April 1, 2009 – 8:48 pm | One Comment
A break-in, a slaying, a Khadr marriage mystery

Michelle Shephard
National Security Reporter
When Ottawa police received a routine 911 call for a suspected break-in last month, they could never have foreseen the strange saga that would unfold – one that involves a federal court …

City’s Muslim youth issue ‘call of distress’ – Many want a leader familiar with daily societal pressures
March 19, 2009 – 1:10 pm | No Comment
City’s Muslim youth issue ‘call of distress’ – Many want a leader familiar with daily societal pressures

By Jennifer Green,
The Ottawa Citizen
A small but outspoken group of young Ottawa Muslims want the city’s new imam replaced with someone who speaks their language, literally and figuratively.
“(It’s) not the person himself, it’s the language …

Khawaja sentenced to 10.5 years in prison
March 12, 2009 – 11:52 am | No Comment
Khawaja sentenced to 10.5 years in prison

COLIN FREEZE
Globe and Mail Update and Canadian Press
March 12, 2009 at 11:52 AM EDT
An Ottawa bomb builder today became the first man to be sentenced under Canada’s post-9/11 laws as a judge meted out a …

Anti-terrorist security urged for PM’s residences
March 9, 2009 – 4:05 am | No Comment
Anti-terrorist security urged for PM’s residences

From Monday’s Globe and Mail
BILL CURRY

OTTAWA — It’s drafty and in desperate need of repair, but when Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his family move out of their 143-year-old official residence on Ottawa’s Sussex Drive …

Zionist spin doctoring and lobbying at its best
April 14, 2000 – 6:45 pm | No Comment
Zionist spin doctoring and lobbying at its best

By Faisal Kutty – “Chretien Planning to Tread Carefully on Mideast Trip,” proclaimed a headline in the Globe and Mail last week quoting government officials. It seems like the Prime Minister missed his briefing on …