LONG before this document was obtained by The Canadian Press, the following were known for certain:

- that he was 15-year-old
- that there was a firefight in which an American died
- that he was severely wounded.

The rest of the information that came out later was sketchy based on the recollections of Americans,  and was suspect because of the fog of war, at best and American bias, at worst. His claim of being tortured by the Americans is difficult to ignore since Americans did indeed torture prisoners in the recent past.

Regardless of whatever his role was in the firefight - and one needs to take a pinch of salt to believe the American version completely - he was indeed a child. That makes him - at the worst - a child soldier.

The above is now compounded by the "oddities and errors" in this document. The actions of the Stephen Harper who doggedly and shamelessly pursued Khadr in spite of many court rulings are well known. The current government MUST rectify Harper's stupidity.