Omar Khadr Facts

Born in Toronto in 1986.

Omars father, Ahmed Said Khadr (Ahmed), was an
Egyptian Canadian who died in 2003 in a firefight with
Pakistani military forces. He was married to Maha El-Samnah
(Maha), and together they had seven children, including
Omar, (from oldest to youngest): Zaynab, Abdullah,

Abdulrahman, Ibrahim, Omar, Abdulkareem and Maryam.

2002: Living with his family in Afghanistan.
2002: Was badly wounded in a gunfight by U.S solders.
Said to have killed a U.S solder during the battle.
2002/July/27: Captured and taken to custody at age 15.
Detained and tortured in Bagram Prison.
2002/October: Spent the next decade in Guantanamo Bay.
Usually sent to solitary confinement.
2010/October/30: Charged and convicted my U.S military

commission.
2012/September/26: Forced to plead guilty if wanting to
return to Canada and stay in prison there.
Took the opportunity and was placed in a maximum security
prison in Canada.
2014/February/7: Moved to a correctional institution in
Alberta where hes currently imprisoned.
The attack made him blinded in one eye.

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When found in the rubble, unarmed and severely wounded,
Omar was shot in the back by a U.S. soldier, leaving huge
exit wounds in his upper left chest.
From a leaked Department of Defense Criminal Investigation
Task Force report, it is revealed that U.S. military had
touched up on the field report to implicate Omar in the death
of a U.S. Delta Force soldier (disguised in Afghan clothing)
There was also erased evidence that a U.S. grenade had
caused the soldiers death.
They also hid information that Omar had been shot in the
back at close range and another survivor executed.
After his capture by U.S. forces, Omar should have been
identified as a child soldier, instead he was illegally
captured, detained, and tortured in Bagram prison.
Following Omars capture by U.S. military, the Canadian
government had the obligation to demand that Omar be
treated according to the Geneva Conventions with special
regard for his age and be immediately returned to Canada.
Although he was a Canadian child, he was denied the
protection of fundamental rights provided by the Canadian
Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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The Supreme Court of Canada and the U.S. Supreme Court
have confirmed that the U.S. and Canada have violated
Omar Khadrs rights
Not only have the accusations against him never been
proven or heard by a regularly constituted court, the charges
were not offences in 2002 under U.S. law and are still not
offences under Canadian or International Law
Because Omar, as a juvenile civilian, could not be charged as
an enemy combatant, the U.S. rewrote the laws of war and
added the term unlawful to his status, so he would be
without combat immunity and therefore stripped of all
legal rights.
In October 2010, Omar accepted the get-out-ofGuantanamo plea deal offered by his U.S. captors and
pleaded guilty to the five ex post facto charges. After
maintaining his innocence while enduring eight years of
extreme torture, Omar understood that pleading guilty was
his only way out of Guantanamo.
His torture included prolonged sleep deprivation, beatings,
suspension from his wrists while his wounds were still fresh,
threats of gang rape, hooding, intimidation by dogs, forced
nakedness, body cavity searches, forced feeding, shortshackling in stress positions, prolonged solitary confinement,

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cell conditions of extreme cold and noise, constant light and
withholding of medical treatment.
Confessions extracted through torture are not admissible
in a legitimate court. Omars sentencing was itself a criminal
offence under Canadian (crimes against humanity and war
crimes) and International (Rome Statute) Law; the
Guantanamo military tribunal proceedings cannot be
considered a valid determinant of guilt.
He was held and interrogated for over two years without
being formally charged
2010: Officially recognized by the United Nations as a child
soldier.
He was the first child condemned for war crimes since the
Nuremburg Tribunal defined the concept after WWII.
He remains the youngest person, and the only Western
citizen, detained in Guantanamo Bay.
The Supreme Court of Canada has twice ruled unanimously
that Canada violated the constitutional rights of Omar Khadr
Mr. Khadr is the son of Ahmed Said Khadr, an alleged alQaeda financier and confidant of Osama bin Laden who was
killed in a shootout with Pakistani security forces in 2003.
The U.S. military says the elder Khadr sent Omar and his
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other sons to al-Qaeda training camps to learn how to use
guns, grenades and other explosives.

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