Not about ‘profiting:’ Khadr opens up on settlement of his fight with Ottawa
TORONTO — Sitting in the eye of a hurricane of fury rarely seen in Canada, former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr quietly speaks of a day when the dust has finally settled and he becomes, as he puts it, someone on the street you don’t look twice at.
For Khadr, settlement of his long-running dispute with Ottawa over breach of his rights is not about denying a bleak past.
“Listen, I want to be in a place where I don’t have any more legal cases, I don’t have any prison time, I just want to be a normal person who doesn’t have to worry about going to court,” he told The Canadian Press. “Hopefully, eventually, it will come.”
Still, Khadr harbours few illusions about the anger sparked by word that Ottawa paid him millions of dollars to settle his lawsuit, or about how Canadians see him.