Judge clears way for wounded soldier to collect judgment against terrorist

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Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

Article Last Updated: 06/14/2007 07:36:14 PM MDT
By Dawn House

~snip~ But it remains unclear if the federal government will help the victims collect on the $102 million judgment.

In a ruling released Thursday, U.S. District Judge Paul Cassell said the victims had obtained a valid judgment "against a terrorist party," which is subject to the U.S. Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. The act provides a system in which victims may be compensated for losses that result from acts of terrorism.

Sgt. Layne Morris, 45, who lost his right eye in the 2002 gun battle, and the family of Sgt. Christopher Speer won the judgement against the estate of Ahmad Said al-Khadr, whom officials say was a financier to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.

Attorneys for Morris and Speer's widow, Tabitha, had argued that Khadr had trained his young son Omar to kill Americans. The boy, then 15, is accused of killing Speer and wounding Morris, and is being held at Guantanamo Bay. ~snip~



Read more: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6140530

[OnyxCollie]

1. What evidence do they have that he was responsible?

Are they planning on disclosing it, or do they not consider that necessary anymore?

And Hatch drops in to feed off the carcass.

Edit: typo

[struggle4progress]

2. Interview: Abdurahman Khadr (Frontline)

Interview: Abdurahman Khadr
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/khadr/interviews/khadr.html

The Unending Torture of Omar Khadr
Jeff Tietz
Posted Aug 10, 2006 7:49 AM

In July 2002, a Special Forces unit in southeast Afghanistan received intelligence that a group of Al Qaeda fighters was operating out of a mud-brick compound in Ab Khail, a small hill town near the Pakistani border. The Taliban regime had fallen seven months earlier, but the rough border regions had not yet been secured. When the soldiers arrived at the compound, they looked through a crack in the door and saw five men armed with assault rifles sitting inside. The soldiers called for the men to surrender. The men refused. The soldiers sent Pashto translators into the compound to negotiate. The men promptly slaughtered the translators. The American soldiers called in air support and laid siege to the compound, bombing and strafing it until it was flat and silent. They walked into the ruins. They had not gotten far when a wounded fighter, concealed behind a broken wall, threw a grenade, killing Special Forces Sgt. Christopher Speer. The soldiers immediately shot the fighter three times in the chest, and he collapsed.

When the soldiers got close, they saw that he was just a boy. Fifteen years old and slightly built, he could have passed for thirteen. He was bleeding heavily from his wounds, but he was -- unbelievably -- alive. The soldiers stood over him.

~snip~ His name was Omar Khadr. ~snip~

~snip~ The Khadr family denies being part of Al Qaeda, but the U.S. government says that Omar was soon sent to join his older brothers, Abdullah and Abdurahman, at a military camp outside the town of Khalden. ~snip~

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11128331/follow_omar_khadr_from_an_al_qaeda_childhood_to_a_gitmo_cell/print

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