Omar Khadr

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Omar Khadr
Detained at Guantanamo
ISN766
OccupationMinor when captured.
ParentsAhmed Said Khadr

Omar Ahmed Khadr (September 19 1986 - ) is the 4th child in the Canadian Khadr family. He has been imprisoned in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps since he was captured at the age of 15 following a 2002 firefight between American troops and militants in Afghanistan. He is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier, leading to charges of war crimes and providing support to terrorism.[1]

Born in Toronto, his case has drawn considerable attention as a child soldier who is the youngest prisoner held in extrajudicial detention by the United States to face charges in the War on Terror. The only Western citizen remaining in Guantanamo, Khadr is unique in that Canada has refused to seek extradition or repatriation.

On 2007-06-04, a military court dismissed all charges against Khadr because the tribunal was only authorised to charge illegal enemy combatants, but Khadr and others had only be labelled as "enemy combatants" with no judgment on their legality, during their administrative processing.[2]. However the case was reopened on 2007-09-24, when a military court ruled that the dismissal was unnecessary since the tribunal could judge for itself the legality of those facing it.[3].

In February 2008, the Pentagon accidentally released evidence that revealed that although Khadr was present during the firefight, there was no other evidence that he had thrown the grenade. After his comrade was killed, a wounded Khadr, on his knees, was shot twice in the back before being captured.[4]

Early life

Khadr as a young child, with his mother Maha.

Like the entire Khadr family, Omar is a Canadian citizen, and like most of the children he was born in Canada.[5]

In 1988 the Khadr family moved to Peshawar, Pakistan, where Khadr's father Ahmed Said Khadr, took a job with a Canadian registered charity dedicated to educating and feeding orphans, Human Concern International.[6] Omar was subsequently enrolled in an Islamic school in the city.[6]

In 1992, Khadr's father stepped on a land-mine while in Lowgar, Afghanistan and nearly died; the Khadr family moved back to Toronto so he could recuperate. Once the family moved back to Toronto, Omar became "hypersensitive to tension in the family" and would often quote Captain Haddock from The Adventures of Tintin.[6] Enrolled at ISNA Elementary School, Omar's teachers described him as "very smart, very eager and very polite".[6]

An early photo of Khadr's mother and siblings.
Khadr at the Metro Toronto Zoo.

Returning to Pakistan with his family, Ahmed was arrested in 1995 after it was discovered that a Sudanese man staying with the family had purchased one of the vehicles used in Ayman al-Zawahiri's bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan.[6][7] Ahmed was hospitalised after engaging in a hunger strike, and 9-year old Omar spent every night sleeping on the floor beside his father's bed.[6] According to a Canadian Imam who had ministered the family, it was during this time in Pakistan that Omar's faith became "radicalized."[6] Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien mentioned the case to Benazir Bhutto asking for clemency, and Ahmed was released for lack of evidence the following year.[8]

Khadr's father moved his family to Jalalabad, Afghanistan in 1997, where they lived in their father's NGO office. During their stay, the family visited the compound of Osama Bin Laden, whom Ahmed had befriended during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s, on occasion and the children of the two families played together.[8] Described as one of Bin Laden's senior lieutenants, the father moved his family into Bin Laden's compound after the leader had abandoned it.[citation needed]

Khadr as a young child.

Following the 1998 embassy bombings, the United States retaliated by bombing camps in Afghanistan. Thus, expecting a similar retaliation following the September 11th attacks in 2001, the 14-year old Omar followed his father into the mountains, where he washed laundry and cooked meals for the group of militants.[6]

According to a 2007 charge sheet released by Susan J. Crawford, the convener of the Guantanamo Military Commissions, Khadr received "one-on-one" weapons training with an unnamed al-Qaeda member nine months after heading into the mountains.[9]

The Firefight and Capture

The 15-year old Khadr was captured following a four-hour[10] firefight in the village of Ab Khail. It was considered the first major engagement since Operation Anaconda had ended four months earlier.[11]

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A youth alleged to be Khadr, handling explosives.

According to his brother Abdurrahman Khadr, Omar had been sent to accompany three of the men visiting the residence, to serve as a translator for the gathered Mujahideen at his father's request - since he was fluent in the local Pashto dialect, as well as Arabic and English. He had previously been asked to serve as a translator for Abu Laith al-Libi.[12] His involvement as a translator was against his mother's wishes, and she wasn't aware he had been sent out that day.[13][14]

From approximately February 2002, a team of American soldiers were using the abandoned Soviet airbase in Khost, Afghanistan as an intelligence-gathering outpost, as they tried to blend in and gain the trust of the local community.[12]

In the early morning of July 27 2002, a team comprised of American Special Forces, the 505th Infantry Regiment[15] and a "militia", comprised of hundreds of Afghan fighters loyal to mercenary warlord Pacha Khan Zadran and led by Zadran's brother Kamal,[16][17] had been sent from the airbase to the home of an elderly wheelchair-bound man believed to be a bomb-maker.[12] The search turned up no evidence against the man.[18]

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A youth, allegedly Khadr, appears on video.

While at the house, a report came in that a certain monitored satellite phone had just been used 600 metres[17] from the group's present location. Six soldiers were sent to investigate the site of the phonecall.[12]

The group consisted of XO Captain Mike Silver, Sgt Christopher Speer from Delta Force, Layne Morris and Master Sgt. Scotty Hansen, both from the 19th Special Forces Group and two others.[12]

Arriving at a series of mud huts and a granary filled with newly-harvested straw[19] surrounded by a 10-foot[20] stone wall with a green metal gate[21] approximately 100 metres radius from the main hut, the Special Forces team saw children playing around the buildings.[18]

Seeing five "well-dressed"[21] men sitting around a fire in the main residence, with AK-47 rifles visible in the room, Morris approached and told the occupants to open the front door. "They looked at me and I looked at them," he later remembered.[21] When he was ignored, he retreated and the six Americans took up a position around the complex and waited 45 minutes while Morris called for support.[17] During this time, a crowd of approximately 100 local Afghans had gathered around the area to watch the incident unfold.[21]

Once the reinforcements arrived, two of Zadran's militiamen were sent into the compound to speak with the inhabitants. They returned to the Americans' position and reported that the men inside claimed to be Pashtun villagers. They were told to return to the huts, and inform the occupants that the Americans wanted to search their house regardless of their affiliation.[22] Upon hearing this, the occupants of the hut opened fire, shooting both militiamen.[23][18] At this point, Hansen and another soldier then ran forward and dragged the two militiamen away - an action that would see Hansen awarded a Bronze Star after the battle.[12]

Several women immediately fled the huts and ran away while the occupants began throwing grenades at the American troops, with intermittent rifle fire.

Morris and Silver had now taken up positions outside the stone wall, with Silver "over Morris's left shoulder explaining where he should try to position his next shot"[12] when Morris fell back into Silver, with a cut above his right eye and shrapnel embedded in his nose. "I thought his weapon had malfunctioned, that was my first thought," was Silver's recollection of the wound later attributed to an unseen grenade.[12]

Morris was dragged a safe distance from the action, and was shortly after joined by Spc. Michael Rewakowski, Pfc. Brian Worth and Spc. Christopher Vedvick all of the 3rd Platoon of Company B of the 1st Battalion of the 505th.[20] who had also been wounded by the grenade attacks.[11]

At 0910 a request for MedEvac was sent to the 57th Medical Detachment. Ten minutes later, DUSTOFF 36 and Wings 11, a pair of UH-60s, were deployed as well as AH-64 Apaches Widowmaker 23 and Widowmaker 26 as escort. Arriving at the scene, the Apaches strafed the compound with cannon and rocket fire, while the medical helicopters remained 12 miles from the ongoing firefight.[15] The helicopters finally landed at 1028 to load the wounded, as a pair of F-18 Hornets dropped Mark 82 bombs on the houses.[12][15] Leaving the Apaches to continue attacking the house along with a pair of A-10 Warthogs that had just arrived on-scene, the MedEvac left for Bagram Airbase, arriving at the hospital at 1130.[15]

Unaware that Khadr and an unidentified Mujahideen had survived the bombing, Silver and Speer followed three Delta Force soldiers entered the compound's ruins, picking their way over the carcasses of dead animals and three fighters.[12]

Two soldiers kneel over the wounded Khadr.
Khadr being treated by medics.

According to Silver's 2007 telling of the story, he then heard a sound "like a gunshot", and saw the three Delta Force soldiers duck - as a grenade flew past them and exploded near Speer, who was at the rear of the group.[12] Nobody had seen the origin of the grenade. In 2008, an accidentally-released written statement by one of Hansen's team stated that they had already begun taking "directed rifle fire" from a surviving Mujahideen before the grenade was thrown.[10]

Silver initially claimed that two of the Delta Force troops then opened fire,[12] leading to Khadr, who was alleged to be holding a pistol, being shot in the chest three times.[18] Later reports suggested that only one soldier, identified as OC-1 in documents, had opened fire. First shooting the wounded Mujahideen who had dropped his rifle and was struggling to move on the ground - OC-1 then saw Khadr crouched on his knees with his back to the soldiers, wounded by shrapnel that had just permenantly blinded his left eye,[18] and shot him twice in the back.[10]

After leaving the compound, soldiers including Silver later returned to search the premises. Local villagers were believed to have taken away two bodies and buried them immediately in accordance with Muslim tradition, but refused to disclose their location to the Americans who wished to identify the fighters.[19]

An excavator was used to tear down the walls of the buildings, and uncovered several rocket-propelled grenades in the huts. Some of them had accidentally detonated while lying in the smouldering ruins.[19] A plastic bag was discovered in the granary, containing documents, wires and a videocasette.[19]

The video shows a youth, alleged to be Khadr, toying with detonating cord as other men including Abu Laith al-Libi assemble explosives[12] and plant landmines.[21][24][19]

Time at Bagram

The unconscious Khadr was airlifted to receive medical attention at Bagram, where interrogations began immediately after he gained consciousness. In a complaint lodged with Amnesty International, Khadr states that he was refused pain medication for his wounds, that he had his hands tied above a door frame for hours, had cold water thrown on him, had a bag placed over his head and was threatened with military dogs. Unallowed to use washrooms, he was forced to urinate on himself.[25]

On 30 August 2002, Canadian officials sent a diplomatic query to the United States requesting consular access to their citizen being held at Bagram. The request was denied ten days later, with a statement that Canada would be notified only if Canadian citizens were transferred to Guantánamo Bay.[25]

He was interrogated again on September 17, during which time he is alleged to have mentioned hearing vague reports that a bounty of $1500 had been offered for each American soldier killed in Afghanistan - but didn't know who was offering the reward. When asked how that made him feel at the time, the 15-year old stated "I wanted to kill a lot of American[s] to get lots of money".[26] When asked why he aided the militants in constructing and deploying explosives he responded that he had been told that the United States was fighting a war against Islam.[26] The contents of the alleged interrogation were not mentioned for the next five years, until prosecutor Jeffrey Groharing mentioned them in his July 12 2007 appeal of Khadr's charges being dismissed. Defence attorney Nathan Whiting responded to the 2007 claims, stating that it was "hardly convincing for the U.S. to suggest that in the midst of this battle, and after the entire site had been flattened by 500-pound bombs and everyone else in the compound killed, Omar was lying under the rubble thinking about how to earn himself $1,500."[26]

Khadr spent three months recuperating at Bagram. During that time he was often singled out for extensive labour by American soldiers who "made him work like a horse", referring to him as "Buckshot" and calling him a murderer. The claimed that he had thrown a grenade at a passing convoy delivering medical supplies.[27] He shared a cell with Begg, Moazzam and 10 others. He became conversational with guard Damien Corsetti, and often spoke about basketball.[19]

He was transferred out of Bagram on October 28, 2002.[19]

Time at Guantanamo

Muslim chaplain James Yee.

Khadr arrived at Guantanamo Bay on October 29 or October 30, to face charges of terrorism and war crimes for his actions. He was recorded as standing 70 centimetres and weighing 155lbs.[19] At first, he still spent much of his time in the prison hospital where he spoke with Muslim chaplain James Yee, although he didn't seek any religious counselling.[19]

Bryan Del Monte, the Office of Detainee Affairs deputy director for political development and international issues, gave a press conference following his return from testifying before the United Nations Committee against torture. He asserted that Khadr, Muhammad al-Qarani and another youth were incarcerated separately from adults, and provided with daily lessons in mathematics, English, and science.[28] Del Monte's assertion conflicts with all other assertions that Khadr was not among the youth who were held separately from the adult population - and that the three youths held in Camp Iguana had already been repatriated.

Because he had turned 16 while at Bagram, he was now treated as an adult prisoner at Guantanamo.[19] Officials considered him an "intelligence treasure trove" not only because his father was Ahmed Said Khadr, but because he had personally met Osama bin Laden and might be able to offer answers about the al-Qaeda hierarchy despite having been only ten years old at the time.[19]

Yee, the Muslim chaplain, later recalled Khadr had been given an English Mickey Mouse book as a reward from an interrogator, and that he had greatly enjoyed it, sleeping with it clutched to his chest.[19]

On January 21 2003, a new Standard Operating Procedure was put in place for American military interrogators who were told they would have to "radically create new methods and methodologies that are needed to complete this mission in defence of our nation".[19]

For most of 2003, Khadr had a cell next to British detainee Ruhal Ahmed and the two often discussed their favourite Hollywood films, including Braveheart, Die Hard and Harry Potter.[19] Ahmed later recalled that while some interrogations would see Khadr return to his cell smiling and discussing what movies he had been shown, other times he would return crying and huddle in the corner with his blanket over his head.[19]

In the early spring of 2003, Khadr was told "Your life is in my hands" by a military interrogator, who spat on him, tore out some of his hair and threatened to send him to a country that would torture him more thoroughly, making specific reference to an Egyptian Askri raqm tisa ("Soldier Number Nine") who enjoyed raping prisoners. The interrogation ended with Khadr being told he would spend the rest of his life in Guantanamo.[6] A few weeks later, an interrogator giving his name as Izmarai spoke to Khadr in Pashto, threatening to send him to a "new prison" at Bagram Airbase where "they like small boys".[6]

In all, 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 positions until he soiled himself.[29][30][31] Khadr's lawyers allege that his interrogators "dragged [him] back and forth in a mixture of his urine and pine oil" and did not provide a change of clothes for two days in March.[32]

At the end of March 2003, Omar was upgraded to "Level Four" security, and transferred to solitary confinement in a windowless and empty cell for the month of April.[6]

On June 18 2004, Khadr was permitted to write a letter home to his mother living in Toronto. Four months later he was permitted to write a second, as well as one to his brother Abdurahman Khadr.

Khadr participated in a hunger strike, lasting 15 days before he was force fed by prison guards. He reported collapsing as he left the hospital, and that his guards administered a brutal beating.[33] On July 20 2005, Guantánamo detainee Omar Deghayes wrote "Omar Khadr [the Canadian juvenile] is very sick in our block. He is throwing [up] blood. They gave him cyrum [serum] when they found him on the floor in his cell," and his extract was subsequently published in The Independent[34] He also participated in a second, 200-detainee hunger strike, over June/July 2005.[35]

CBC News reported that Khadr was finally permitted to speak with his mother by phone in March 2007, nearly five years after his capture.[36]

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A youth, allegedly Khadr, smiling while burying landmines in the video.

In November 2007, following the collapse of a military tribunal in which prosecutors "desperately" wanted to show the video found in the wreckage, the tape was leaked to the media by an unknown source and shown on 60 Minutes. Four months later, Kuebler stated that following conversations with the show's producers, he believed that the video was leaked by Vice President Dick Cheney's office.[37]

Combatant Status Review Tribunal

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The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the June 2004 Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the Bush administration was wrong to declare they could legally withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror - and that due process must be followed. Consequently, the Department of Defense instituted "Combatant Status Review Tribunals".

Combatant Status Review Tribunal notice read to a Guantanamo captive.

The Tribunals were not themselves authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- simply to determine whether or not the captives have already been correctly proven to match the administration's definition of an "enemy combatant". Participation by the captives was voluntary, and Khadr chose not to be involved in his tribunal, at the urging of his lawyers who had been unallowed to meet with him.[citation needed].

On August 31 2004, a Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for Khadr's Combatant Status Review Tribunal. The summary alleged that he had admitted he threw a grenade which killed a U.S. soldier, attended an al Qaida training camp in Kabul and worked as a translator for al Qaida to coordinate land mine missions. In addition, he was accused of helping to plant the landmines between Khost and Ghardez, and having visited an airport near Khost to collect information on U.S. convoy movements.[38]

His actual tribunal was convened a week later, on September 7, as Panel #5 reviewed his status in the detainment camp. The tribunal concluded that Khadr was an "enemy combatant" and a one-page summary of conclusions was released on September 17.

Role of Canadian Government

After their initial inquiry in August 2002, the Canadian government maintained a stance of refusing to request extradition or repatriation for their native-born citizen even though all other Western countries had successfully removed their citizens from the detention camp.

A 2002 press release from Foreign Minister Bill Graham stated:[39]

"It is an unfortunate reality that juveniles are too often the victims in military actions and that many groups and countries actively recruit and use them in armed conflicts and in terrorist activities. Canada is working hard to eliminate these practices, but child soldiers still exist, in Afghanistan, and in other parts of the world."

However, the article then notes that Graham's office subsequently tried to fight concerns over Khadr's youth.[39]

In February 2003, Canadian Foreign Affairs intelligence officer Jim Gould and an official from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service were allowed to interrogate Khadr themselves.[39] The presence of Gould allowed the government to claim that the purpose of the visit was to "to ascertain Khadr's well-being", while his attorney Nate Whitling argued that "Foreign Affairs is suggesting that the visit was actually for (Khadr's) benefit, but this is not the case". His attorneys then sought a Federal Court injunction to prevent CSIS from interrogating their client in the future.[40]

Assistant Director of CSIS William Hooper assured the Canadian public this interrogation was not intended to secure intelligence for an American prosecution, but admitted that the information was all freely shared with his American captors - without securing any guarantees, such as foregoing potential death penalty charges.[40]

The report from the Canadian interrogation states that:[39]

"In a fit of anger, he tore off his shirt revealing extensive scarring on the upper torso and a cluster of smaller ones on the upper left side of his body and on the back of his left shoulder."

In January 2008, the revised manual for Canadian Consular Officers included a list of locations where it was possible that Canadians in foreign custody would undergo torture. The United States was on the list, based on the belief that Canadians could face torture in Guantanamo Bay - where Khadr is the sole Canadian.[41][42]

In June 2007, Amnesty International called on the Canadian Government to intervene on Khadr's behalf.[13] The open letter was signed by two former foreign affairs ministers and several sitting members of parliament.[citation needed]

The letter acknowledges that the Khadr family has an unsympathetic reception in Canada:

"We are aware that, setting aside any of Khadr's own actions, the notoriety of his family makes him unsympathetic in the eyes of some. But it is plainly unjust to punish the son for the sins of the fathers, or to deny a citizen the protection of his government because of the words or deeds of family members."

The Canadian Bar Association urged Canadian Prime Minister to repatriate Khadr to stand trial in the Canadian justice system.[43][44] Other legal experts outlined difficulties in trying Khadr in Canada.

The Speer/Morris lawsuit

Sgt. Speer's widow, Tabitha, and Sgt. Layne Morris launched a join civil suit against the estate of Ahmed Said Khadr - claiming that the father's failure to control his son resulted in the loss of Speers' life and Morris' right eye.

Utah US District Judge Paul Cassell gaving his ruling on February 17 2006, awarding $102.6 million in triple damages in what he said likely marks the first time terrorist acts have resulted in civil liabilities.[45]

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.

An article published in the June 14 2007 Salt Lake Tribune said that Morris and Speer's widow might collect funds via the U.S. Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.[46] The article quotes a Treasury Department official who acknowledged that Ahmed Khadr's assets had been frozen, but said it was up to Morris and Speer to locate them.

See also

References

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