Omar Khadr faces $50M suit by blinded U.S. soldier, widow [View all]
Source: The Canadian Press
The widow of a U.S. special forces soldier killed in Afghanistan and an American soldier blinded by a grenade are suing Canada's Omar Khadr for close to $50 million, The Canadian Press has learned.
In the lawsuit, which will be filed Friday in Utah, Tabitha Speer and Sgt. Layne Morris allege Khadr, then 15, was responsible for the death of Sgt. Christopher Speer and Morris's injuries in July 2002.
The factual basis for the suit, according to their lawyer, is Khadr's guilty plea to five war crimes before a U.S. military commission in Guantanamo Bay in October 2010 that saw him sentenced to a further eight years in prison.
The plea deal included a stipulation of facts in which Khadr, now 27, admitted to murder and attempted murder in violation of the rule of war, and three other war crimes.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/omar-khadr-faces-50m-suit-by-blinded-u-s-soldier-widow-1.2651290
May 22, 2014 5:27 PM ET| Last Updated: May 22, 2014 6:36 PM ET
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