A US military judge dismissed the argument Friday that Guantanamo’s youngest prisoner, Omar Khadr, was a child soldier

and therefore in need of protection and not prosecution.

The Toronto-born twenty-one-year-old, now, was fifteen when he was shot and captured

a grenade was thrown that fatally wounded Delta Force soldier Christopher Speer.

in a document that was mistakenly disclosed to us

was written by one of the—what we believe was one of the Delta Force soldiers who was there

He alleges that after the grenade was thrown, he shot one of the occupants in the head and the chest, killing him, and then he shot Omar twice in the back. So at this point, we’re not sure if he was the one to actually throw the grenade.

At the end of the battle

there’s these two gaping holes in his chest

One of the soldiers

said that Omar looked at him and said, “Shoot me.”

he was treated worse than some of the other prisoners

because

allegations that he had killed a soldier

guards were especially rough with him