Firefight
On October 2, 2003, Pakistani AH-1 Cobra gunships and security forces attacked a house in the South Waziristan region of Pakistan, where Abdulkareem, 14 at the time, and his father Ahmed Khadr were staying with seven other men. They included Hamza al-Jowfi, al-Iraqi, Khalid Habib and Qari Ismail.
Pakistani authorities have said that Abdulkareem was among the combatants. He was paralysed after a bullet damaged his spinal cord, while another lodged in his arm. The 17-year old Khalid Murjan Salim was arrested at the scene, the son of the alleged militant Murjan Salim. Shortly eafter, he was extradited to Egypt.
Abdulkareem Khadr was taken to a military hospital in Rawalpindi and placed under surveillance as he recuperated. He was shown photographs of the corpses found among the ruins of the house, but reports differed as to whether he identified any as his father.
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