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Khadr family denied visit
Abdul Karim Khadr's sister believed after a visit to Canada's high commission in Islamabad she'd be able to finally see her wounded 14-year-old brother and quickly arrange to bring him home to Canada.
Instead, she was told that if they want the injured teenager to return to Canada, her family will have to pay thousands of dollars for his flight, and Pakistani officials still hadn't granted them permission to visit him.
Abdul Karim, a Canadian citizen, was hurt in an Oct. 2 battle near the Afghanistan border, a bullet leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Coming home with him on a stretcher means buying as many as six seats on a commercial flight, or arranging an air ambulance costing as much as $30,000.
"We don't have that kind of money," Abdul Karim's sister Zaynab said yesterday. A Foreign Affairs spokesperson said paying for flights home is not Ottawa's responsibility.
"We are Canadian citizens, and feel as though we've been abandoned," Elsamna said.
What the HELL? Let me see if I have this straight. The guy's father is a major Al Qaeda financier. The bright lad in question gets wounded by a bullet in his spine that leaves him unable to walk. A third son, Abdurahman, was released from Guantanamo Bay in October and admitted receiving weapons training at an "al Qaeda related" camp in Afghanistan. And WE'RE the bad guys for not flying the poor crippled fool home on request?!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WOMAN? 😕
Abdul Karim Khadr's sister believed after a visit to Canada's high commission in Islamabad she'd be able to finally see her wounded 14-year-old brother and quickly arrange to bring him home to Canada.
Instead, she was told that if they want the injured teenager to return to Canada, her family will have to pay thousands of dollars for his flight, and Pakistani officials still hadn't granted them permission to visit him.
Abdul Karim, a Canadian citizen, was hurt in an Oct. 2 battle near the Afghanistan border, a bullet leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Coming home with him on a stretcher means buying as many as six seats on a commercial flight, or arranging an air ambulance costing as much as $30,000.
"We don't have that kind of money," Abdul Karim's sister Zaynab said yesterday. A Foreign Affairs spokesperson said paying for flights home is not Ottawa's responsibility.
"We are Canadian citizens, and feel as though we've been abandoned," Elsamna said.
What the HELL? Let me see if I have this straight. The guy's father is a major Al Qaeda financier. The bright lad in question gets wounded by a bullet in his spine that leaves him unable to walk. A third son, Abdurahman, was released from Guantanamo Bay in October and admitted receiving weapons training at an "al Qaeda related" camp in Afghanistan. And WE'RE the bad guys for not flying the poor crippled fool home on request?!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WOMAN? 😕
