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1995

Ahmed Said Khadr is arrested for his alleged role in the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, but he is set free after Jean Chrétien raises the arrest with Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

1996

The Khadrs return to Canada, but patriarch Ahmed Khadr forms his own humanitarian relief group and goes back to Pakistan. The family moves to Jalalabad, under Taliban control, and lives in Osama bin Laden’s compound.

1996

The Khadr brothers begin attending weapons training camps affiliated with the Taliban and bin Laden. The family makes annual trips to Canada to raise money and collect supplies, some of which end up at training camps.

1999

The family moves to Kabul.

October, 2001

Ahmed Said Khadr is named on a list of terrorists wanted by the FBI in connection to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

November, 2001

The U.S.-backed Northern Alliance rebels chase the Taliban out of Kabul. Omar Khadr flees to his father’s orphanage in Logar.

June, 2002

After training on AK-47s, Soviet PKs and rocket-propelled grenades, Omar Khadr, 14, works as a translator for al-Qaeda and conducts a surveillance mission, spying on U.S. military convoys at an airbase in Khost.

July 20, 2002

Omar Khadr allegedly plants 10 land mines in the mountains between Gardez and Khost. They are intended to strike U.S. military targets.

July 27, 2002

U.S. troops surround an Afghanistan compound but are met with heavy gunfire. Two Afghan government soldiers are killed and several U.S. troops sustain injuries. Warplanes blast the compound until the gunfire subsides. U.S. troops enter the compound and find Omar Khadr, who allegedly hurls a grenade at a medic and kills him. U.S. forces open fire and Omar is shot three times. He loses the sight in one eye. He is taken to Bagram Air Base.