Omar Khadr

Omar Khadr Child Soldier

 

Name:	Omar Khadr
Nationality:	Canadian
Residence:	Afghanistan
Marital Status:	Single
Date of Arrest:	27/07/2002
Location of Arrest:	Afghanistan

 

 

Please read “A Legal Debate in Guantanamo on Boy Fighters” (link below) so that you can get some background on Omar.

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• Report on Torture, Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment of Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. CCR, 2006

• Rolling Stone, August 24, 2006

• Toronto Star, February 4, 2007

• 60 Minutes, November 18, 2007 (Video)

• Politics interfering with justice at Gitmo, colonel says (posted today)

• Omar Ahmed Khadr (background from trial watch)

• A Legal Debate in Guantánamo on Boy Fighters

• The Trials Of Omar Khadr (MUST READ) by Andy Worthington

• Canada’s Child Soldier Problem (NEW!) by Andy Worthington

The below is from Cageprisoners:

Letters:
Letter from Omar to his brother, Abdul-Rahman, 11-10-04
Letter from Omar to his mother, 18-06-04
Letter from Omar to his mother, 09-10-04

Omar Khadr was born in 1986He is the son of Ahmad Said Khadr, Egyptian, who came to Canada from his native Egypt in 1977, and Maha, a Palestinian-Canadian.

He has three brothers, Abdullah, Abdul-Rahman (21), Abdul-Rahim (14), and two sisters, Zaynab (23) and one who is the younger than him.

Whilst born and raised in Canada, the family moved to Afghanistan in the 1990’s, engaging in refugee work and establishing schools, to rebuild the country under the rule of the Taliban.