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Omar and I: Stability and Democracy

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  1. Front Matter iii
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments xi
  4. Omar Khadr: A Timeline xv
  5. Introduction: The Story So Far 3
  6. The Saga of Omar Khadr
  7. Politics over Principles: The Case of Omar Khadr 51
  8. The Long Way Home: The Saga of Omar Khadr 67
  9. My Encounter with Omar 86
  10. Reflections
  11. Re: That Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 91
  12. Our Kids 100
  13. Omar and I: Stability and Democracy 106
  14. Omar Khadr in Guantánamo: Architecture is not Justice
  15. Some Images of the Unseen: On the Making of the Film You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days inside Guantánamo 113
  16. Excerpts from the Screenplay You Don’t Like the Truth: 4 Days inside Guantánamo 118
  17. Reflections
  18. Nail Biter : A One-Act Play 165
  19. Hoping for Omar Khadr 174
  20. Extreme Loneliness 181
  21. The Case of Omar Khadr
  22. War Stories: A Reflection on Defending an Alleged Enemy Combatant Detained in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba 189
  23. Khadr’s Canadian Defence: Two Edmonton Lawyers, a Professor, and the Rule of Law 211
  24. The Rule of Law, the Force of Law, and the Rule of Force 222
  25. Torture as Foreign Policy: The Omar Khadr Decision 254
  26. Reflections
  27. Omar Khadr: America’s Injustice, Canada#x2019;s Shame 267
  28. The Politics of Fear 270
  29. Omar Khadr, Child Soldier
  30. How to Unmake a Child Soldier 279
  31. International Law and the Recruitment of a Child Soldier: Omar Khadr and Family Ties 285
  32. Omar Khadr: Canadian Child Soldier 305
  33. How the Supreme Court of Canada Undermined the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Case of Omar Khadr 317
  34. Reflections
  35. From Congo to Guantánamo: Omar Khadr, the Invisible Child Soldier 349
  36. Delta Force 351
  37. “Child Soldier” 353
  38. Omar Khadr, Oh Canada
  39. Reading Khadr: Making Sense of Canada’s Reluctance to Do the Right Thing 357
  40. Pray or Pay: The Rights of Canadians Abroad 369
  41. Omar Khadr, the Carceral Net, and the Muslim Body 376
  42. Stolen Youth: Lost Boys and Imperial Wars 390
  43. Omar Khadr and the Perils of Canadian Multiculturalism 412
  44. Omar Khadr as Canadian Icon 425
  45. Afterword: The Mark of Torture 429
  46. Contributors 439
  47. Permissions 449
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