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MY COMMENT:

If she said it, Nazanin Afshin-Jam is mistaken by having called Omar Khadr a "child soldier." He was fifteen years old when he CHOSE to kill US Army combat medic, SFC Christopher Speer in Afghanistan. Khadr had refused to surrender and instead threw a grenade which mortally wounded Speer. A fifteen year old is not a child, he is a teenager, past the age of understanding right from wrong. The fact that he was released and then compensated for his time as a detainee at the US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is an abomination. An admitted and convicted murderer, he should have faced capital punishment. He is lucky to be alive, and as an unlawful combatant could have been lawfully killed on the battlefield. Please stop excusing the behavior of unlawful combatant terrorists in the Global War on Terror. Sincerely, Montgomery J. Granger, Major, US Army, Retired. Former ranking US Army Medical Department officer with the Joint Detainee Operations Group, Joint Task Force 160, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Author: "Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior."