interesting how so people cite the conventions on the rules of war to determine that Omar Khadr was an enemy combatant...he was not. The international conventions that relate to the laws of war require that combatants be determined based on recognition , affiliation with, and or adherence to those rules...and Al Qaeda does not meet any of those conditions ...

members of Al Qaeda are to internationally recognized combatants, as pirates were to the  naval forces of the 18th century...the rules of naval warfare didn't apply 

as for being a child soldier....that analogy doesn't hold in anything other than a nuanced technical age argument..he was mere weeks away from his 16th birthday...Britain still allows recruitment of 16 year olds with parental consent, and I think it's clear that Khadr had parental consent..Khadr was no different than anyone raised in a culturally rigid environment, but he was not forced....

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