Omar Khadr was taken to Afghanistan when he was a young child. He wasn't involved in any armed activity until the USA invaded the country in 2001. By that time Khadr was 14, and he joined the Afghans who were fighting against the American invaders. This is the right of all people when their country is invaded.

The attack that badly injured Khadr came after he and his comrades refused to surrender to American special forces. First, an American A-10 made repeated bombing runs against them, reducing their compound to rubble. Khadr sustained multiple injuries, including the loss of an eye from shrapnel. Nevertheless, with no one actually seeing what happened, the American's claimed he threw the grenade which killed an American soldier. Khadr was shot twice in the back once he was spotted

No American soldier ever saw Khadr with a weapon of any kind. The soldiers were about to kill the unconscious boy when they were ordered to bring him in for interrogation.