Is Omar Khadr a War Criminal -- or Just a Headache the U.S. Wants to Give to Canada?
VANCOUVER -- While the United States was occupied with the midterm elections and their attendant hopes and fears, the Obama administration quietly got rid of a major problem in Guantanamo Bay, the case of the child soldier Omar Khadr. Taken prisoner when he was 15, Khadr is a Canadian citizen who was captured by U.S. forces during fighting in Afghanistan and who was to become the first combatant-cum-terrorist tried on President Barack Obama's watch. Under a plea agreement arranged by Khadr's lawyer, Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, and White House officials (as well as Secretary of State Hillary ...
Maple Leaf Cool? Get Used to It, Please
VANCOUVER – The Vancouver Winter Olympics ended with fireworks and festivity, the city and nation exuberant at its tally of gold medals, with the most glorious coming when Sid "The Kid" Crosby fulfilled Canada's fondest Olympic wish -- and national mythology -- by scoring in overtime against a dangerous and talented Team USA to win men's Olympic hockey gold on Canadian ice for the first time ever. The joyful heat of that moment and those Games still ripple through the March sunlight of this stunningly beautiful city, the cherry blossom trees a brilliant pink against the Pacific blue sky ...
Waiting for the Tsunami
HONOLULU -- Friday had been this kind of a day in aloha-land: Airlines announced they would offer more "post-recession" flights to Hawaii, house prices were rising -- median $597,000 -- in Honolulu; and then there was news of the death of Kermit Tyler, the Army Air Force first lieutenant on radar duty in Hawaii who dismissed the reports of an unusually large blip of fast approaching aircraft on the morning of December 7, 1941 with the infamous line, "Don't worry about it." On Waikiki Beach, as that relentless sun slid into the Pacific, a middle aged, "just married" couple-- he in black tie ...
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