Monday, January 2, 2012

Crime Cases in Canada

Close the book:

"Canada won’t extradite terror suspect" November 04, 2011|Associated Press

TORONTO - A Canadian indicted in the United States on charges he supplied Al Qaeda with weapons in Pakistan will not be extradited to the United States after Canada’s Supreme Court said yesterday that it would not hear the case....

Abdullah Khadr’s younger brother, Omar Khadr, is the last Western detainee held at Guantanamo Bay. Omar is accused of killing a US soldier with a grenade in Afghanistan in 2002. Omar pleaded guilty and was eligible to return to Canada by Nov. 1 to continue serving his sentence, but he remains in custody at Quantanamo Bay, and the Canadian government has said prisoner transfer cases typically take 18 months.

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Related: Slow Saturday Special: Canada's Terrorist Sanctuary

 "Ex-Mafia boss found dead in Canada" November 26, 2011|By ASSOCIATED PRESS

MONTREAL - The body of an alleged Mafia boss, who US authorities said once led New York’s notorious Bonanno crime family, was fished out from a river north of Montreal on Thursday....

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