Khadr, who played in Osama bin Laden's private compounds as a child, was 15 when he was arrested
Don't fall for the leftist ploy to tug at the heart strings to see this as 'just a boy.' This jihadist was old enough to understand the consequences of picking up a weapon and aiming it at civilians and US troops. As far as I am concerned, this scumbag got far better treatment than he deserved - he is alive, despite his reprehensible behavior. He has been treated far better than any of our troops captured by his fellow scumbags.
As many as 200,000 Americans lied about their age in order to enlist in the US military during WW-II.
Young Warriors: Some Veterans Lied About Their Ages
Gerry Barlow was a 15-year-old who manned an anti-aircraft gun on a Navy carrier."I was fifteen. But nobody knew it," he said. "I didn't even think I knew it. I didn't feel like 15. I felt like everybody else around me."
Barlow found himself in the Navy after he ran away from a Brooklyn orphanage. He was down on his luck when he strolled past a Navy recruiting station one day.
"I walked in and that's when I asked, 'Can I join the navy?'" said Barlow.
Using his older brother's birth certificate and paying five dollars to a skid row drunk to sign his enlistment papers as his mom, Barlow became a seaman. And though he was a mere child himself, Barlow saw plenty of adult combat.
He did? Do tell.
Your claim doesn't match the Pentagon claims, nor the soldiers on the ground.
The troops assumed that nobody could be alive in the compound after it was hit with 500-pound bombs. When they approached, however, a grenade came over a wall and killed the Special Forces medic.
The original report said that another fighter had thrown it before being killed. This report was subsequently changed to say that Omar Khadr must have thrown it because it came after all others were dead and Khadr was the only one alive.
Then, the Pentagon accidentally released papers showing that a US soldier entering the compound found there were actually two people still alive inside--the US solider then killed the first one; the other (Omar Khadr), was crouched facing away from him, and he shot Khadr in the back twice. (Interesting side note...the Pakistani army later shot his younger brother in the back and paralyzed him. Tough break, getting your "war wounds" in your back!) Khadr asked to be killed, but the troops refused. They patched up their wounded, and then patched him up.
The case against Khadr is pretty weak.
Nobody saw Khadr throw a grenade...and the assumptions upon which they based his guilt were later found to be wrong. Then we have the fact that the Pentagon is tampering with reports. These don't add up to a very good case and give the appearance that the Pentagon was trying to cover up and justify why it had Omar Khadr in Gitmo.
Omar Khadr claims he was acting as a translator in Afghanistan, yet he is seen in a training video on bombmaking so he knew what was going on. Obviously, he's not innocent, but the case being made is not "general association with bad guys."
He was raised hate America and to love Islam and to be an obedient son. How many American 15-year-olds would question their fathers when told to defend their heritage against an invading foreign enemy? Although there's his own responsibility, it was the twisted indoctrination by his late father, his mother, and other relatives that led to this.
I don't see a conviction coming from this..and then I wonder if there will be a lawsuit against the US for "shooting an unarmed boy in the back."