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Omar Ahmed Algredr Khadr (born September 19, 1986) is a Canadian who was convicted of murder after he threw a grenade during an armed conflict in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of an American soldier. At the time, he was 15 years old and had been brought to Afghanistan by his father, who was affiliated with an extreme religious group. During the conflict Khadr was badly wounded, and captured by the Americans. He was subsequently held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp for 10 years. He pleaded guilty to murder in October 2010 to several purported war crimes prior to being tried by a United States military commission.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charges )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/our-work/law-and-security/military-commissions/cases/omar-ahmed-khadr )〕〔(Sean Flynn, "The Defense Will Not Rest" ), ''GQ Magazine'', August 2007, p. 1〕〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=FAQs about the Military Commissions Act )〕 He was the youngest prisoner and last Western citizen to be held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay. He accepted an eight-year sentence, not including time served, with the possibility of a transfer to Canada after at least one year to serve the remainder of the sentence.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Diplomatic Notes )〕 During a firefight on July 27, 2002, in the village of Ayub Kheyl, Afghanistan, in which several Taliban fighters were killed, Khadr, not yet 16, was severely wounded. After being detained, he was asked for information about Al Qaeda and subsequently sent to Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. During his detention, he was interrogated by Canadian as well as US intelligence officers. Khadr was the first person since World War II to be prosecuted in a military commission for war crimes committed while still a minor. His conviction and sentence were widely denounced by civil rights groups and various newspaper editorials.〔 〕 His prosecution and imprisonment was condemned by the United Nations, which has taken up the issue of child soldiers. On September 29, 2012, Khadr was repatriated to Canada to serve the remainder of his sentence in Canadian custody. He was initially assigned to a maximum-security prison but moved to a medium-security prison in 2014. Khadr was released on bail pending an appeal of his U.S. conviction in May 2015 after the Alberta Court of Appeal refused to block his release as requested by the Canadian government. Khadr's lawyers successfully challenged his incarceration in Canada as an adult offender. On May 14, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the federal government's position, ruling that Khadr had clearly been sentenced by the US military tribunal as a minor. If he loses his appeal of the US conviction, underway in a separate action, he would serve any remaining time in a provincial facility rather than in a federal penitentiary. In 2013, Khadr filed a CAN$20,000,000 amended civil suit against the government of Canada for conspiring with the US in abusing his rights. He said he had signed the plea agreement because he believed it was the only way he could gain transfer from Guantanamo, and claimed that he had no memory of the firefight in which he was wounded. ==Early life== Khadr was born in Toronto on September 19, 1986, to Ahmed Khadr and Maha el-Samnah, Egyptian and Palestinian immigrants who became naturalized Canadian citizens. Their family had moved to Peshawar, Pakistan in 1985, where his father worked for charities helping Afghan refugees.〔 Omar spent his childhood moving back and forth between Canada and Pakistan. He had six siblings, one of whom died of a congenital condition in childhood. Two brothers were older, and one younger. His mother wanted to raise their family outside of Canada, as she disliked some of its Western social influences.〔("The Khadr family" ), CTV News, January 12, 2006〕 Khadr was enrolled in a school in Peshawar. In 1992, Khadr's father was severely injured while in Logar, Afghanistan; the family moved with him for a time back to Toronto so he could recuperate. After the move, Omar became "hypersensitive to tension in the family" and would often quote Captain Haddock from ''The Adventures of Tintin''.〔 Enrolled at ISNA Elementary School for Grade 1, Omar's teachers described him as "very smart, very eager and very polite".〔 After the family's return to Pakistan, Omar and his siblings attended a private school in Peshawar, and were homeschooled for two years. They returned to write their exams at the Ansar Scientific Institute. Khadr's favourite subjects were English and Islamic Studies, as he already knew the topics well. In 1995, the father Ahmed Khadr was arrested in Pakistan following Ayman al-Zawahiri's bombing of the Egyptian embassy there, and accused of financially aiding the conspirators.〔〔Richard A. Clarke, Statement to the House on Terrorist Financing to the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, October 22, 2003〕 After Ahmed was hospitalised after engaging in a hunger strike, 9-year-old Omar spent every night sleeping on the floor beside his father's bed until Ahmed Khadr's release a year later for lack of evidence.〔 In 1996, Khadr's father moved his family to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where he worked for an NGO. The family lived in the father's office. Following the 1998 embassy bombings, the United States retaliated by bombing suspected al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. Expecting a similar retaliation following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the mother and children of the Khadr family retreated toward the Pakistani mountains, where the father visited infrequently. Omar helped by doing the family shopping, washed laundry and cooked meals.〔〔 In early 2002, the youth was living in Waziristan with his mother and younger sister. He took up beading his mother's clothes as a hobby.〔 At one point, he was forced to wear a burqa and disguise himself as a girl to avoid scrutiny, an act that upset him.〔 When his father returned, Omar asked to be allowed to stay at a group home for young men, despite his mother's protests. His father agreed, and a month later allowed Omar to accompany a group of Arabs associated with Abu Laith al-Libi, who needed a Pashto translator during their stay in Khost.〔 The 15-year-old Khadr promised to check in regularly with his mother.〔〔〔CBS News, ("Omar Khadr: The Youngest Terrorist?" )〕 According to charges signed in April 2007 by the military commission officer Susan J. Crawford, Khadr received "one-on-one" weapons training in June 2002,〔CBS News, ("Murder Charges For Canadian Gitmo Inmate" ), CBS News, April 24, 2007〕 and his visits to his mother and sister became less frequent.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Omar Khadr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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