A two-page assessment of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr is among the newly leaked WikiLeaks files. Khadr, of course, killed American serviceman Christopher Speer during a shootout in Afghanistan. His many advocates have turned him into something of a false martyr, however, claiming that Khadr is the real victim of American wrongdoing. This narrative was always false, and the newly leaked assessment, dated January 24, 2004, provides more details about the Khadr family and Omar’s time in detention that undermine it.
It has long been known that Omar’s deceased father, Ahmed, was an Osama bin Laden loyalist and a long-time al Qaeda operative. U.S. analysts concluded that he was very important within al Qaeda, describing him as a “senior al Qaeda financier” and “fourth in command underneath” Osama bin Laden.
