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In 2002, following the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent United States invasion of Afghanistan, Omar Khadr’s father sent him to Afghanistan to act as a translator. Later that year, Khadr, age 15, was wounded and captured by American forces after he was the only one of a group of militants to survive a firefight. Khadr was accused of throwing a number of grenades that killed U.S. Sgt. Christopher Speer and blinded Sgt. Layne Morris in one eye. He later said he did throw a grenade but does not know whether it was the one that killed Speer.
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Omar Khadr pleaded guilty and was convicted of killing Sgt. Christopher Speer, a U.S. special forces soldier, with a hand grenade in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was 15.