Free to travel.   Free to get a passport.  Free to visit whom he wants.  Free   
   to have no parole restrictions or responsibilities.  What a long, difficult,   
   heart-rending journey to have rights restored under a Canadian judicial system   
   - just for killing    
   an enemy combatant during the course of a major war.     
      
   May the road ahead be an easier one to travel.   
   __________________________   
      
   From a media source in Britain - BBC - today:   
      
      
   A Canadian court has ruled that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr   
   sentence has expired.   
      
   The Canadian citizen spent a decade in the infamous US military prison for war   
   crimes allegedly committed when he was a young teenager in Afghanaistan.   
      
   In 2012 he was repatriated to a Canadian prison, and was released on bail in   
   2015.   
      
   Monday's court ruling means he will no longer have conditions on his release   
   and he will be a free man.   
      
   "I think it's been a while but I'm happy it's here, and right now I'm going to   
   just try to focus on recovering and not worrying about having to go back to   
   prison, or, you know, just struggling," Khadr said outside the Alberta court.   
      
   Khadr, who was born in Toronto, was taken to Afghanistan by his father, a   
   member of the al-Qaeda terror network. He was captured in Afghanistan in 2002   
   during a fire fight between US soldiers and the Taliban, when he was 15.   
      
   He spent the next decade in Cuba at Guantanamo Bay.   
      
   Khadr was convicted in 2010 by a US military commission of killing US Army Sgt   
   Christopher Speer, and other war-related crimes.   
      
   That same year, Canada's Supreme Court ruled his constitutional rights had   
   been violated, holding that Canadian officials had been complicit in Khadr's   
   mistreatment and had contributed to his ongoing detention in Guantanamo.   
      
   In 2012 he struck a plea deal and was transferred to a prison in Alberta,   
   Canada.   
      
   He was released on bail in 2015.  He sued the Canadian government for   
   violating his constitutional rights.   
      
   Khadr has since recounted his confession, maintaining it was made under   
   duress. He is appealing his conviction in the US.   
      
   Canada formally apologised to Khadr in 2017 and paid him a C$10.5 million   
   ($8m; £6m) settlement.   
      
   His case has long divided public opinion. His defenders describe him as a   
   child soldier. Others argue he was a radicalised fighter.   
   _____________________________   
      
   Out of the night that covers me,   
         Black as the pit from pole to pole,   
   I thank whatever gods may be   
         For my unconquerable soul.   
      
   In the fell clutch of circumstance   
         I have not winced nor cried aloud.   
   Under the bludgeonings of chance   
         My head is bloody, but unbowed.   
      
   Beyond this place of wrath and tears   
         Looms but the Horror of the shade,   
   And yet the menace of the years   
         Finds and shall find me unafraid.   
      
   It matters not how strait the gate,   
         How charged with punishments the scroll,   
   I am the master of my fate,   
         I am the captain of my soul.   
      
   Invictus   -  By William Ernest Henley   
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