Canada's most notorious al-Qaeda Family demand passport?

Khadr says passport refusal violated rights.
TORONTO - "Lawyers representing the son of
Canada's most notorious al-Qaeda operative will
be in court this morning arguing that the federal
government had no right to deny a passport to
Abdurahman Khadr on the grounds of national
security."
I beg to say:
MR Khadr family has been provided Canadian
protection one time too many.
Allow him to leave with his Family and then
he can pursue a home elsewhere. If he has
rights, So do all other nationalities
deported after being in Canada from a young
age!
Does he actually expect a visa to go on American soil?
What a laugh!!! ...
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Khadr says passport refusal violated
rights-Son of al-Qaeda operative in
court

Michael Friscolanti
National Post
Monday, December 05, 2005

TORONTO - Lawyers representing the son of Canada's
most notorious al-Qaeda operative will be in court this
morning arguing that the federal government had no right
to deny a passport to Abdurahman Khadr on the grounds
of national security.
The two-day hearing is the latest instalment in the
ongoing saga of the Khadr family, whose links to
Osama bin Laden have been well-publicized since the
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Mr. Khadr, the son of Ahmed Said Khadr, an influential
al-Qaeda financier, claims Bill Graham, the former
minister of foreign affairs, violated his Charter rights
when he denied his passport application in a
"clandestine" fashion "quite apart from the considerations
of procedural fairness."
Mr. Khadr, a Canadian citizen who trained at bin
Laden's terror camps in Afghanistan, applied for a
passport in the spring of 2004, citing a desire to visit
family overseas and explore job opportunities in the
United States.
The Canadian Passport Office refused his request,
but provided no explanation why. It later emerged
that Mr. Graham, using a rare power of intervention
known as a royal prerogative, denied the application
in the interests of national security "and the
protection of Canadian troops in Afghanistan."
A memo sent to the minister on March 3, 2004
stamped SECRET -- also noted that granting
passports to "high-risk members of the
Khadr family" could be a public relations disaster.
"It seems likely that the Canadian public and
the American government would be highly critical
of full passport services being provided to
this family," the memo said.
Clayton Ruby, Mr. Khadr's lawyer, will ask a
Federal Court judge today to overturn the
government's decision and immediately issue
a passport to his client.
He argues that when Mr. Khadr applied for the
document, no law was in place allowing Ottawa
to deny the document on the grounds of national
security.
"They acted in secret," Mr. Ruby said.
"They lied about what they'd done and who had
done it. They deliberately concealed the fact that
Bill Graham had made this decision, and they lied
about it for months -- and only 'fessed up when
they had to tell the court."
The Liberal government has since amended the
rules to allow denials on the basis of national
security. Officials have also offered Mr. Khadr
the chance to reapply, but Mr. Ruby says that
is not enough.
"Under those old rules, they had no choice but
to give him a passport," he said in an interview.
"I am asking the court to order that."
Abdurahman Khadr was living in Afghanistan
when hijackers brought down the
World Trade Center. Two months later, he was
captured by Northern Alliance fighters and
handed over to U.S. authorities.
He was transferred to America's prison
for "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, but later claimed he was working as a
mole for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
When he returned to Canada in 2003, he told
a CBC documentary crew that his was
"an al-Qaeda family" and that his father,
an Egyptian-born Canadian, repeatedly urged
him to become a suicide bomber.
Abdurahman's younger brother, Omar, is also
a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, charged with
murder in connection with the death of a U.S.
Army medic in Afghanistan.
A date for his trial has not been set.
Mr. Ruby said the passport case should concern
all Canadians because if the judge decides
against Mr. Khadr, it could allow the
government to secretly refuse anybody a
passport on any grounds it sees fit.
"They can make the rules up as they go along,"
he said. "Tomorrow it will be people who
associate with Jean Chretien.
This is inconsistent with the rule of law and
it's of vital importance for all Canadians.
It has more to do with other people than
it does with Khadr. Khadr is just the victim.
This is fundamental for every Canadian."
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