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Ottawa no friend to young detainee

by Thomas Walkom October 10, 2008October 5, 2021

Omar Khadr has a Toronto public library card. He likes chocolate. Like many Canadian teenagers, he can’t spell very well. He is lonely. “Don’t forgat me,” he wrote his family in one letter.

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