Omar Khadr 'Splains Why He Pleaded Guilty

He's an innocent as the driven snow of his "home" and native land, claims the widdle jihadi:

TORONTO, Ontario -- Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr has explained for the first time why he pleaded guilty to five war crimes, saying it was because he had been "left with a hopeless choice." 

In a new court filing obtained by The Canadian Press, Khadr says he knew the Americans could have held him indefinitely even in the highly unlikely case that he was acquitted. 

"I was left with a hopeless choice," Khadr, 27, says in the sworn affidavit. 

"If I wanted the chance to eventually return to my home of Canada, I would have to be found guilty of crimes as determined by the U.S. government, which could then lead to me serving my sentence in Canada." 

The affidavit, filed in Federal Court, comes as part of Khadr's $20-million lawsuit against the federal government for violation of his rights. 

Without the plea agreement he signed in October 2010, Khadr says he would have faced the possibility of life-long detention and "continued abuse and torture" at Guantanamo Bay. 

The entire agreement, he says, was put together by the American government. 

Khadr also makes it clear that -- in contrast to the agreed stipulation of facts in the plea deal -- he has never believed Jews or Americans should be killed or deserve to die and says he never willingly joined an al Qaeda terrorist cell. 

"Any participation in al Qaeda-related activities was at the demand of the adults around me," his affidavit says...

In that case, his cold-blooded murder of army medic Christopher Speer must have made the adults around him inordinately proud.