Khadr secret document released by accident

[GliderGuider]

Source: Toronto Star

GUANTANAMO BAY — A classified document mistakenly released to reporters today revealed that Omar Khadr wasn't the only one alive in an Afghan compound when an American soldier was fatally wounded.

The five-page secret document is based on an interview with the man who shot Khadr twice in the back. Identified only as OC-1, the witness described to an interviewer what he saw after the grenade was thrown in the July 27, 2002 attack.

"The man had an AK-47 on the ground beside him and the man was moving. OC-1 fired one round striking the man in the head and the movement ceased. Dust was again stirred by this rifle shot. When the dust rose, he saw a second man sitting up facing away from him leaning against the brush. This man, later identified as Khadr, was moving . . . OC-1 fired two rounds both of which struck Khadr in the back."

The report also states that OC-1 deduced that it was Khadr who threw the grenade due to his position, and because the other man was firing a rifle at the same time.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/300329

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So let me get this straight - there's no eyewitness evidence that Khadr threw the grenade, there was a second identified fighter alive in the compound at the time who was seen firing, Khadr was shot twice in the back even though he wasn't doing anything threatening, and he was only 15 years old.

Just how wrong can one prosecution be?

[PDJane]

1. Totally wrong

and completely corrupt and incredibly self-serving.

[thunder rising]

2. We have got to close that prison down. We have got to have real trials, verdicts and settlements

But there is one war criminal that will get away ... G W Bush.

The public trials will show the world what he did. And, let the world grab him, try him, and hang him.

[othermeans]

3. Does anybody know what happened to the second set of Abu Ghraib photos? n/t

[Judi Lynn]

4. Something of an understatement from the article:

"If the document had not been released by mistake it would noy have been made public, leaving some to question the Pentagon's assertion that the Guantanamo trials will be transparent."

Also, from the article:

In addition to the charge of "murder in violation of the laws of war," Khadr is charged with attempted murder, spying, conspiracy and providing material support to terrorism.

His lawyers argued today that his upcoming May trial should be dismissed, challenging among other things the legitimacy of the process and whether crimes such as conspiracy and spying constituted war crimes.

Kuebler also argued that when Congress endorsed the Military Commission Act, under which Khadr is charged, it didn't envision the prosecution of detainees under the age of 18 at the time of the alleged offence. Prosecutors countered that Congress was aware of Khadr's case when approving the 2006 law and did not specify an age requirement for trials.
(snip)

The Republican Senate wouldn't care how old the child is, but sober, sane Americans would.

[Supersedeas]

5. as if the media really cares about the 'truth'