OldBrownsFan Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 A former Guantanamo inmate convicted of killing a U.S. Army sergeant in Afghanistan is now getting an apology from Canada. It’s also said to include a settlement of eight million dollars. Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty in 2010 to throwing the grenade that killed a U.S. soldier and blinded another. He was 15-years-old at the time, becoming the youngest inmate to be held at Guantanamo Bay. Khadr later returned to Canada and was released from custody in May of 2015. His lawyers filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government for interrogation methods they used at Gitmo. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dodged any question regarding the compensation on Tuesday. As a young boy, Khadr’s family is said to have briefly stayed with Osama Bin Laden. His lawyers say he was radicalized by his father who was killed in 2003 while staying with senior Al-Qaeda operatives. Meanwhile, the widow of the U.S. soldier killed in that grenade explosion is looking to obtain any money the inmate may receive from Canada. Tabitha Speer, the wife of Sergeant First Class Christopher Speer, filed a wrongful death and injury lawsuit against Khadr in 2014. The lawyer in the suit also represented Sergeant Layne Morris, the U.S. soldier blinded by the blast. The judge had granted over $100 million in damages, however; it did not apply outside of the U.S. and Khadr is a Canadian citizen. An attorney for Speer and Morris filed the application for the compensation to apply in Canada, and is still awaiting review. http://www.oann.com/former-gitmo-inmate-who-killed-u-s-soldier-to-receive-8m-apology-from-canadian-govt/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 You can file a wrongful death and injury suit as a result of war? Isn't that just... War? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted July 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 The bigger question for me is you can kill a US soldier and injure another and get an 8 million dollar settlement and an apology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieHardBrownsFan Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 Fuck that rag head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 the liberal stupidity infected whatever judge that was involved... geez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 The bigger question for me is you can kill a US soldier and injure another and get an 8 million dollar settlement and an apology. You don't think you're leaving out any context there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 But, on my initial post, can we just start suing each other over the consequences of war? Unless I'm missing something in the story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBrownsFan Posted July 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 But, on my initial post, can we just start suing each other over the consequences of war? Unless I'm missing something in the story But is it a war in the conventional sense or more of just a non declared war on terrorism? We are not fighting soldiers in uniforms but terrorists where the Geneva convention rules do not apply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 The canadians feel his confession was beaten out of him. When all this was going on at gitmo people were warning us that the military was casting out dragnets than taking people "somewhere", a confession follows and off to grandmothers house (gitmo)we go. So if canada feels like a citizen of theirs was one of these people than thsts that. And im sorry but the widow of that soldier has no claim to money given by a foreign govt to one of their citizens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 But is it a war in the conventional sense . Pretty sure afghanistan, which is where this happened, was a "warzone" obf. That was an actual declared war by bush wasnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clevfan4life Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 So i just read more of that, the dudes getting 8m but the family is suing for 100m? Am i seeing that right? Who the fuck do they think they're gonna get tgat from? And wtf makes this family think their loss is worth 100m when how many thousands of soldiers have died in the past 15 years...... They ought to sue the u.s govt for sending soldiers to die in intractable shitholes where they should never have been in the first place Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted July 6, 2017 Report Share Posted July 6, 2017 and....a lot of the money will go to ....terrorist groups. bet on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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