A dialogue between a father and his four year old son,
by Adil Charkaoui (translated from French)*
 
- Daddy, daddy …
- Yes, little one.
- What are you wearing around your neck?
- Around my neck! Nothing.
- No - there!
- Ah! You mean around my ankle.
- That's the neck of the foot, the ank... ?
- Ankle.
-  But you haven't said what it is.

- Well, that, it's a bracelet.
- How long have you worn it?
- Three years.
- Why do you always wear it?
- Because i've got to, it's a present.
- Who gave it to you?
- It was tonton.
-  Which tonton?
-  Okay…it was uncle Sam…
-  Who is uncle Sam?
-  Really, you ask too many questions. It was somebody who gave it to me ...uncle Sam, uncle Stephen, uncle Security. It doesn't really matter, you don't know him.
-  Ok, but why is your bracelet black?
-  Because those who gave it to me have white faces but black hearts.
-  Why isn't it gold like Mommy's?
-  Because the people who gave it to me don't have golden hearts, little one.

Gareth Peirce, Friday December 21, 2007, Guardian

    Editorial, The Gazette, Friday, December 07

Mahmoud Jaballah is a suspected Al-Qa'ida sympathizer, but not convicted of anything - and the distinction is critical, not semantic.

In fact, he has never been charged with any crime, and so has never even gone to trial. But he did spend eight years in a special jail in Kingston, Ont., - built for suspected terrorists - based on circumstantial evidence about his involvement in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 before being released to severe house arrest in Toronto last spring. ((Correction - he spent most of his prison time in Toronto, was only moved to Guantanamo north (the special Kingston prison) when it opened in spring 2006 - CJAC))

There are no charges pending, but Jaballah is far from free. His family's every move is watched by CSIS and police, who have set up heavy monitoring outside his home.

    GLOBE AND MAIL, 2007.11.10, COLIN FREEZE

Adil Charkaoui's name may be forever affixed to a landmark civil-liberties decision by the Supreme Court of Canada, but Amnesty International organizers are being forced to scratch it off a scheduled speakers' list for a youth conference today.

The Federal Court yesterday ruled that the security considerations surrounding the Moroccan immigrant, still considered a potential "al-Qaeda member", preclude him from addressing the conference bearing his name - The Use of Security Certificates: The Experience of Adil Charkaoui.