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So, let me get this straight ...
On the same day Canada re-admits members of a family with admitted links to a terrorist organisation ... they strip search the wife of a Korean War veteran ... ?
Only in Canada, eh? Pity ...
Granny strip-searched
COMING BACK FROM FLORIDA WHILE AL-QAIDA FAMILY RUSHED IN
By CP
THE GRANDSON of a 92-year-old woman says she was strip-searched at Pearson airport after returning from a winter in Florida on the same day a family with alleged terrorist links was allowed back into Canada with the federal government‘s help. "I was infuriated, I was absolutely infuriated," Marty Kann said yesterday. "What infuriated me even more was this admitted terrorist family (the Khadrs) coming back into this country, and there are (customs officials) nailing this 92-year-old woman walking into the airport with canes." Kann, a plumber in Pickering, said he learned about his grandmother‘s Good Friday ordeal while he was at his father-in-law‘s house for Easter Sunday dinner.
He said his grandparents are so distraught over their experience, they refuse to discuss it in detail. However, he knows this much: His grandmother, who uses two canes to walk, and his grandfather, who was outfitted with a prosthetic leg after suffering an injury while fighting in the Korean War, were returning to Toronto after spending the winter in Florida. While going through customs, authorities decided to do a thorough search of his grandmother, Kann said. "I have no idea what the whole-case scenario is -- all my grandfather told me was they strip-searched her," he said. "It‘s ridiculous. You have to understand she can‘t even walk without her two canes, or a walker or a scooter.
WANTS APOLOGY
"I can‘t believe they would do this to this woman, or any woman in the same physical capacity or obvious physical impairment that she has," said Kann, adding he wants airport or government officials to apologize to his grandparents. "It‘s not like she had a gun hidden in her canes."
A spokesman with Canada Border Services Agency said she couldn‘t discuss specifics of any case. However, "personal strip searches aren‘t something we take lightly," said Patrizia Giolti, who‘s with the government agency‘s Greater Toronto Area division. "We do follow strict procedures and we would discuss that with our manager before we proceed."
Kann‘s grandparents landed at Pearson the same day Maha Elsamnah, the widow of Ahmed Said Khadr, an admitted al-Qaida financier and confidant of Osama bin Laden, returned to Canada with her paralyzed 14-year-old son, Karim. Ottawa helped arrange emergency passports for Elsamnah and her teenaged son so he could try to get medical help. Karim was injured when his father was killed in a shoot out at a house in Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan.
On the same day Canada re-admits members of a family with admitted links to a terrorist organisation ... they strip search the wife of a Korean War veteran ... ?
Only in Canada, eh? Pity ...
Granny strip-searched
COMING BACK FROM FLORIDA WHILE AL-QAIDA FAMILY RUSHED IN
By CP
THE GRANDSON of a 92-year-old woman says she was strip-searched at Pearson airport after returning from a winter in Florida on the same day a family with alleged terrorist links was allowed back into Canada with the federal government‘s help. "I was infuriated, I was absolutely infuriated," Marty Kann said yesterday. "What infuriated me even more was this admitted terrorist family (the Khadrs) coming back into this country, and there are (customs officials) nailing this 92-year-old woman walking into the airport with canes." Kann, a plumber in Pickering, said he learned about his grandmother‘s Good Friday ordeal while he was at his father-in-law‘s house for Easter Sunday dinner.
He said his grandparents are so distraught over their experience, they refuse to discuss it in detail. However, he knows this much: His grandmother, who uses two canes to walk, and his grandfather, who was outfitted with a prosthetic leg after suffering an injury while fighting in the Korean War, were returning to Toronto after spending the winter in Florida. While going through customs, authorities decided to do a thorough search of his grandmother, Kann said. "I have no idea what the whole-case scenario is -- all my grandfather told me was they strip-searched her," he said. "It‘s ridiculous. You have to understand she can‘t even walk without her two canes, or a walker or a scooter.
WANTS APOLOGY
"I can‘t believe they would do this to this woman, or any woman in the same physical capacity or obvious physical impairment that she has," said Kann, adding he wants airport or government officials to apologize to his grandparents. "It‘s not like she had a gun hidden in her canes."
A spokesman with Canada Border Services Agency said she couldn‘t discuss specifics of any case. However, "personal strip searches aren‘t something we take lightly," said Patrizia Giolti, who‘s with the government agency‘s Greater Toronto Area division. "We do follow strict procedures and we would discuss that with our manager before we proceed."
Kann‘s grandparents landed at Pearson the same day Maha Elsamnah, the widow of Ahmed Said Khadr, an admitted al-Qaida financier and confidant of Osama bin Laden, returned to Canada with her paralyzed 14-year-old son, Karim. Ottawa helped arrange emergency passports for Elsamnah and her teenaged son so he could try to get medical help. Karim was injured when his father was killed in a shoot out at a house in Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan.
