In a letter to the U. S. military commission at Guantanamo after the plea of guilty had been heard but before the announcement of sentence, Radhika Coomaraswamy, the UN secretary-general's special representative for children and armed conflict, wrote that Khadr represents the " classic child soldier narrative: recruited by unscrupulous groups to undertake actions at the bidding of adults to fight battles they barely understand ", and suggested that Khadr to be released into a rehabilitation program.

Omar Khadr, a 15 year old Canadian citizen, arrested in Afghanistan in 2002, and held at Guantanamo was to have been one of the first detainees to be charged before a military commission.

In July 2004 and August 30, 2006, Orders in Council were used to deny a passport to Abdurahman Khadr, a member of the infamous Khadr family, and who had previously been held in detention by the United States at Guantanamo Bay.

* November 30-Abdurahman Khadr returns to Canada from Afghanistan after being imprisoned by the Americans at Guantanamo Bay

Once, when the two horses fought, bin Laden pointed a gun at Khadr, yelling at him to stop the fight before his prized Arabian horse was killed.

Abdurahman Khadr at the American Consulate in Toronto, as part of a protest requesting his brother's repatration from Guantanamo Bay.

While in Cuba, Khadr worked to obtain information from his fellow inmates before spending five additional months at the Camp X-Ray prison, where he claims to have been given training as an undercover CIA operative.

Khadr states that he attempted to approach Canadian embassies in various nations and was rebuffed at all of them.

Raised in Shubra El-Kheima, Khadr was a shy child with a speech impediment and frequently stayed at the house of his much older half-brother Ahmed Fouad.

After a few months in Montreal, Khadr moved to Toronto, before being accepted at the University of Ottawa to study Computer Programming.

Khadr at his Toronto wedding. Ahmed and Maha married in November at Jami Mosque in Toronto.

Khadr joined the Muslim Students Association at the university and came to agree with their notions of Sharia law, and became a vocal advocate of Islamic rule for his native Egypt.

During his time in Pakistan, Khadr met with journalist Eric Margolis several times, who later recalled that Khadr was a " man of respect " in the city, and seemed " entirely humanitarian and not ideological at all ".

When Azzam was killed in 1989, Khadr was among the mourners at his funeral, " visibly distraught ".

In September 1991, Khadr gave a fundraising lecture entitled Afghanistan: The Untold Story at the Markham Islamic Centre.

Maintaining his connections with regional warlords, Khadr was furious at their in-fighting which he felt was invalidating the Mujahideen success in driving out the Soviets.

An angry Khadr wrote a letter to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, complaining that he had rebuilt the structure and should at least be compensated for the money he spent in fixing it.

On October 2, 2003, Khadr, his son Abdulkareem, al-Jowfi, al-Iraqi, Khalid Habib and Qari Ismail were all staying at a South Waziristan safe house.

One Taliban source had also hinted that the suicide bomber may have been Abdullah Khadr, but the report turned out to be false.

On February 7, 2008, it was reported that a biography of Khadr was published on an " al Qaeda web-site " as part of an on-line book entitled " Book of 120 Martyrs in Afghanistan.

In July 2008, Elmasry wrote that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is “ playing politics ” and remains indifferent to Omar Khadr ’ s incaration at Guantanamo Bay prisoner because Harper had calculated that refusing to press Washington for Khadr ’ s return would score him “ political points .” Elmasry further stated that " This is where a leader comes in to say, ` This is really wrong and I have to correct that wrong by bringing this person ( back to Canada ) even if I lose some political points with Islamophobes.

In 2008, a five page statement from an American who shot Khadr revealed that Khadr hadn't been the only occupant of the compound to have survived the American aerial bombardment.

In the United States, prosecutors take a different view from David Crane and have repeatedly stated that they intend to try Omar Khadr, on several serious charges including murder, for offences they allege he committed in Afghanistan while fighting for the Taliban against United States forces while he was under sixteen years old.

On 25 October 2010, Khadr pleaded guilty to murder in violation of the laws of war, attempted murder in violation of the laws of war, conspiracy, two counts of providing material support for terrorism and spying.

This was agreed as part of a plea bargain, which would see Khadr deported to Canada after one year to serve the remaining seven years there.

Omar Khadr remained in Guantanamo Bay as of July 2012, and the Canadian government continued to face international criticism for their stonewalling of his repatriation.

The first case was that of Omar Khadr, a Canadian who had been designated as an " enemy combatant " in 2004.

Khadr was accused of throwing a grenade during a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002.

Abdurahman Khadr was denied a passport by the Canadian government.

* March 5-Abdurahman Khadr, who admitted recently to having Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden links, alleges to working for the Central Intelligence Agency as an informant.

Abdurahman Khadr (, ; born 1982 ) is the third child of the Egyptian Canadian Khadr family, and was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, after being detained in Afghanistan under suspicion of connections to Al-Qaeda.

His younger brother Omar Khadr, captured separately, during a firefight, was also held in Guantanamo.

Abdurahman, behind his brother Abdullah Khadr | Abdullah.

Abdurahman Khadr was born in Manama, Bahrain, the son of Ahmed Khadr, an Egyptian immigrant to Canada.

In his youth, Khadr was known as the " problem child " in the family, frequently running away and getting in trouble, refusing to follow any rules, drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes.

In March 2004, Khadr gave a series of three interviews to PBS, which became the focus of a documentary entitled " Son of al Qaeda ", after largely passing a polygraph test, where he claimed that he grew up in " an al-Qaeda family ", and that he resented his father for associating with militants.

In July 2004, Khadr was denied a Canadian passport by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, on the explicit advice of Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham, by invoking the royal prerogative.

In 2004, when the Khadr family returned to Canada, they were met by a loud wave of public sentiment in favour of revoking their citizenship and deporting them.

as having testified about Khadr dying in 2004.

* U. S. woman sues dead Khadr dad for $ 10 million, CTV, August 6, 2004

In mid July Canadian courts compelled the Canadian government to make available tapes made of the interrogation of Canadian youth Omar Khadr by Canadian security officials in 2004.