Chapters in this book

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