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LIFE IN CANADA Omar Khadr, like all six children in the '', December 28 , 2002 In 1992 Ahmed Said Khadr was wounded by a land-mine, and spent a year back in Canada recovering his health. LIFE IN BIN LADEN'S COMPOUND Khadr's father moved his family to Afghanistan at this time, where they lived in '' Khadr's father has been described as one of bin Laden's senior lieutenants. Omar's older brother Abdurahman Khadr described being sent to military training camps shortly after his arrival, when he was just eleven years old. All of the Khadr boys are believed to have military training while they were children. CAPTURE On July 27, 2002, 14- or 15-year-old Khadr was in a compound near Khost that was surrounded by US special forces. According to the US version of events, the Americans called on those in the compound to surrender. When they refused a firefight ensued. Sergeant Layne Morris was injured early in the skirmish. The Americans called in a bombardment. Most press accounts of the skirmish say that Khadr killed a " Medic ", implying that he had attacked a noncombatant after giving his surrender, but although Sgt. Christopher Speer had been trained as a medic, he was actually leading the squad combing the compound after they believed all occupants had been killed. Khadr leapt from hiding and threw a grenade, which killed Sgt. Speer, and injured 3 other members of the squad. The Good Son , originally published in the '' National Post '', December 28 , 2002 Omar was shot three times, and left nearly blind in one eye. ACCUSATIONS AGAINST KHADR A video-tape was reportedly found in the ruins showing Khadr planting mines. The Americans say that while being interrogated at Bagram Air Base , Khadr confessed to entering a US occupied section of Afghanistan, to gather surveillance intelligence on the local airport. INCARCERATION AT GUANTáNAMO BAY There were other detainees incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay who were still just children. They were kept in a smaller compound, Camp Iguana , where they were treated humanely. They were not required to wear the orange coveralls. They were provided with school teachers, and recreation. The BBC interviewed one 13-year-old child detainee upon his return to Afghanistan. He had learned to read at Camp Iguana. The two years he spent there were the only education he had ever had, and he reported being sorry to leave. '', May 7 2003 She announced a $3 million program to help re-integrate child-soldiers in Afghanistan back into Afghan society. But Khadr was not kept with the other child detainees. Khadr was treated as an adult. Khadr has been reported to have been kept in solitary confinement, for long periods of time; to have been denied adequate medical treatment; to have been subjected to ''" Short Shackling "'', and left bound, in uncomfortable ''" Stress Position s"'' until he soiled himself. In a press conference on January 16, 2005, Khadr's lawyers described how Khadr's captors took Khadr's still bound body and wiped his hair and clothes in his urine and feces. Khadr's Combatant Status Review Khadr's case was reviewed by the Combatant Status Review Tribunal on September 8, 2004. The review released a one page summary of their conclusions on September 17, 2004. Khadr's lawyers had written him a letter, recommending that he refrain from cooperating with the tribunal, or any questioning conducted without adequate legal representation. The tribunal concluded that Khadr was an "illegal combatant". At the time of his hearing Khadr had not been allowed to meet with any lawyer. Access to lawyers A June 15, 2005 article in '', June 15 , 2005 Ahmad also reported that Khadr had described extensive abusive treatment to him, but that when he arrived at the Virginia security centre, all twenty paragaphs of his notes had been Redacted . Mr Ahmad's first meeting with Khadr was not until November 2004. Khadr has still not been permitted to speak with the Canadian lawyers who were his family's first choice. Hunger Strikes On September 1, 2005, the '' September 1 2005 Khadr participated in the 200-member hunger strike that occurred in late June and July. The Globe article reports that Khadr's first hunger strike lasted 15 days, and that prison authorities administered intravenous fluid. Khadr reported collapsing as he left the Hospital, where-upon his guards administered a brutal beating. On September 11, 2005, '', September 11 2005 Omar Khadr Canadian juvenile is very sick in our block. He is throwing blood. They gave him cyrum [serum when they found him on the floor in his cell. Galib Fiyhani also. KHADR MILITARY COMMISSION On November 7 , 2005 , Khadr was charged, and will face a " Military Commission ". charged with murder Khadr was charged with Murder for his actions against the squad inside the compound near Khost, Afghanistan . The charges against Mr. Khadr allege that his father, the late '', November 8 2005 On '', November 9 , 2005 On '', December 2 , 2005 Prosecutor's accusations '', January 10 2006 Preliminary hearing On '', April 6 2006 '', April 6 2006 On '', April 6 2006 On April 7, 2006, Khadr's lawyers reversed course stating on the record in front of the commission that after consulting with U.S. military officials that Khadr's current conditions of confinement were indeed humane and not done in order to "punish" Khadr for being cooperative in participating in commission proceedings. {Link without Title} THE SPEER/MORRIS LAWSUIT Tabitha Speer , Sergeant Speer's widow, and Sergeant Layne Morris , launched a civil suit against the estate of Ahmed Said Khadr , Omar Khadr's father. They argue that as Khadr was a child, his parents were responsible for his actions, and that since his parents should have kept him from picking up a gun on the battlefield, they were responsible for any wounds he inflicted. Normally, under US law, one can't sue for damages that were caused by "acts of war". Speer and Morris argue that Khadr was engaged in an act of terrorism, not an act of war. They have described the law-suit as "an attempt to attack terrorism in its bank account". REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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