Well, idea that he should be poster boy fro anti-terrorism propaganda by CIA is interesting but there is a fallacy in your idea and how you present the debate here.

For one, no one is 'a terrorist at heart'. Everyone is a peace lover 'at heart'.

For other, even if Omar Khadr is no longer interested in terrorist activities he NEED NOT support CIA propaganda.

You said that he was following instructions when he was 15, and was convinced with the lawyers argument. If he was conditioned and brain washed beyond repair at an early age, then the shades of this hatred remains forever will remain in the psyche. What he needs is love and compassion to heal him. Having "hatred" in itself doesn't invoke punishment. One cannot go into the depths of his mind to conclude with certainly that he might commit terror again. At least science has not advanced (and most probably will never...) so far as to punish a criminal before a crime is committed.

There's a fallacy here.

The 60 minutes report only proves that he was following his father's instructions to be an interpreter. There's no proof that it was he who threw the hand grenade that killed the US soldier.

So why call him a terrorist or a Child soldier?
What's the proof?

And why terrorise the children of the your enemy? Does it not make you a terrorist?

If he was brain washed, I think the best thing would be to get his brain unwashed by reading books on spirituality and consciousness by Dr. Deepak Chopra. Perhaps he should be asked to see Dr. Chopra for a consultation to change his mental make up towards love, peace and compassion. And he should not be used by the CIA or any other agency, no matter what.

Omar Khadr is a victim. One doesn't have to victimize him any further with branding him and making him a poster boy by an organization which perhaps was instrumental in creating the problem in the first place.

To make a deal in exchange for his freedom and threat of prison would be pure opportunism. Let him rot in G. Bay for life if he must, he shouldn't a tool in the hands of CIA and parrot what they say.

The terrorists in the making see it as brain washing by CIA. Which might have adverse effects and can only 'show' CIA and the militarist USA as peace lovers.

The only person who was there was Omar Khadr. There are other video and intelligence reports to link him to Al-qaida including his own testimonials. Letting him 'rot' in Gbay is not going to change the world, but like many others if he can preach to young people about the fallacies of terror and keep young people away from joinging terror groups, that might change the world.

You can't ask him to do it, if he doesn't beleive in it. If he still believes in terror, then he should be treated as a combatant. His brother is now working for CIA post 9/11. He realised that all this killing is useless and allah has not asked them to kill people.

My bitter lessons in history (could have been birth of hatred)
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In my childhood and early-teen years, I was greatly dismayed and angered by reading historical accounts like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamerlane

Indian Campaign
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Informed about civil war in India, Timur began a trek starting in 1398 to invade the reigning Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud of the Tughlaq Dynasty in the north Indian city of Delhi. He invaded India on the pretext that the Muslim Delhi Sultanate was too tolerant and soft toward its Hindu subjects.

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The Sultan's army was easily defeated on December 17, 1398. Timur entered Delhi and the city was sacked, destroyed, and left in ruins. Before the battle for Delhi, Timur executed more than 100,000 captives[citation needed], mostly Hindus[citation needed].

Timur himself recorded the invasions in his memoirs, collectively known as Tuzk-i-Timuri. In them, he vividly described the massacre at Delhi:

In a short space of time all the people in the [New Delhi] fort were put to the sword, and in the course of one hour the heads of 10,000 infidels were cut off. The sword of Islam was washed in the blood of the infidels, and all the goods and effects, the treasure and the grain which for many a long year had been stored in the fort became the spoil of my soldiers. They set fire to the houses and reduced them to ashes, and they razed the buildings and the fort to the ground....All these infidel Hindus were slain, their women and children, and their property and goods became the spoil of the victors. I proclaimed throughout the camp that every man who had infidel prisoners should put them to death, and whoever neglected to do so should himself be executed and his property given to the informer. When this order became known to the ghazis of Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death.

One hundred thousand infidels, impious idolaters, were on that day slain. Maulana Nasiruddin Umar, a counselor and man of learning, who, in all his life, had never killed a sparrow, now, in execution of my order, slew with his sword fifteen idolatrous Hindus, who were his captives....on the great day of battle these 100,000 prisoners could not be left with the baggage, and that it would be entirely opposed to the rules of war to set these idolaters and enemies of Islam at liberty...no other course remained but that of making them all food for the sword.

As per Malfuzat-i-Timuri Timur targeted Hindus. In his own words, "Excepting the quarter of the saiyids, the 'ulama and the other Musalmans [sic], the whole city was sacked". In his descriptions of the Loni massacre he wrote, "..Next day I gave orders that the Musalman prisoners should be separated and saved."

During the ransacking of Delhi, almost all inhabitants not killed were captured and enslaved.

Timur left Delhi in approximately January 1399. In April he had returned to his own capital beyond the Oxus (Amu Darya). Immense quantities of spoils were taken from India. According to Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, 90 captured elephants were employed merely to carry precious stones looted from his conquest, so as to erect a mosque at Samarkand — what historians today believe is the enormous Bibi-Khanym Mosque. Ironically, the mosque was constructed too quickly and suffered greatly from disrepair within a few decades of its construction.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamerlane