Interviews
In March 2004, Khadr gave a series of three interviews to PBS, which became the focus of a documentary entitled "Son of al Qaeda", after largely passing a polygraph test, where he claimed that he grew up in "an al-Qaeda family", and that he resented his father for associating with militants.
He has given a number of conflicting accounts of his life, many of which contradict each other. For example, he has claimed that he was as young as 9 when he began attending Afghan training camps, and that he remained in them until as late as 2003, years after he had not only been kicked out of the camps, but was imprisoned by the United States. He has repeatedly made comments suggesting that everything up until his most recent story was a lie.
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