On July 27, 2002 , an Al-Qa'ida compound in Afghanistan was bombarded by U.S. warplanes for four hours. The bombing over, U.S. soldiers stormed the compound. Inside, according to a document released accidentally by U.S. officials Monday, a soldier found two people still alive. There was a man who had an AK-47 beside him, "moving and moaning." The soldier shot this person in the head, killing him. The soldier, identified as only OC-1, said he saw a second person "sitting up facing away from him leaning against the brush." The soldier shot this person two times in the back. The second person was 15-year-old Omar Khadr, the Canadian who has now been held in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay for almost six years and who has become, on the evidence, an obsession with the Pentagon. The U.S. military has accused Khadr of throwing a grenade that killed U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer during the battle on July 27. No one saw him throw the grenade, but because he was, until this week, thought to have been the only person still alive in the compound, it was assumed that he alone could have thrown it.

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