"Making the reparations Khadr has requested, based on a “child soldier” status, is ridiculous. To be a “child soldier”, the way the UN or Romeo Dallaire sees it, implies being compelled to fight. Khadr came to Afghanistan with his father, met Bin Laden, and in a description of the video of him building IED’s, he seems to be enjoying himself. Al Queda is a militant, terrorist group; Khadr was not forced. He even said he wanted to collect a bounty on killing Americans. But child soldier? No."

http://www.theobserver.ca/2017/04/07/scharf-some-canadian-teens-also-served-in-the-first-and-second-world-wars