..."That is a lot of trust to place in a young man who spent his formative years following his father around terrorist training camps and living cheek by jowl with some of the most crazed jihadis on the planet."

Mr. McDougall - you address just one part of Omar Khadr's ordeal when you don't mention that he also spent part of  his formative years in Guantanamo Bay prison, purposely established by the Bush administration to evade American law and justice. Mr. Khadr was handled by "patriotic" American  security agents  who tortured him mercilessly and with impunity for 10 long years,  with complete disregard for the rule of law. He was 15 when his imprisonment started.   A government gone rogue while, simultaneously, claiming to be a beacon of hope and defender of democratic values worldwide.  Enough said.