Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr

by Michelle Shephard

Book Overview

Prize-winning journalist Michelle Shephard tells the troubling story of Canadian Omar Khadr, who has spent a quarter of his life growing up in Guantanamo Bay. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470841176
• ISBN13: 9780470841174
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Omar Khadr: A jihadi terrorist or victim of parental abuse

Michelle Shephard tells the story of a young man few Canadians feel any sympathy for. However, only a cold-hearted person would not be affected by the tragedy of this young boy, who lost his childhood to his late father's dream of a global jihad. Shephard takes on a huge challenge and accomplishes her goal admirably. As I put down the book, I could not help but feel deep compassion for Omar Khadr. The book has left me feeling that I should do something to help him. This despite the fact I have a lifelong distaste for jihadism and nothing but contempt for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Omar Khadr deserves a second chance in life, and if he ever wins freedom, he will owe it partly to Michelle Shephard's fine book. For making me look at the young man as a fellow human being, "Thank you Michelle Shephard."