Injured U.S. soldier 'shocked' Khadr wasn't alone

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Source: Thestar.com

GUANTANAMO BAY — A U.S. Special Forces soldier injured in the battle where Omar Khadr was captured says he was shocked to learn that the Canadian teenager wasn't the only one alive when a grenade fatally wounded another soldier.

Layne Morris, a former U.S. Green Beret who was blinded in one eye during the 2002 firefight in Afghanistan and forced to retire from the Army, said he always maintained that Khadr was the sole survivor in the compound.

"That was a total shock to me," Morris said in a telephone interview from his Utah home. "Everyone had told me from the get-go that there was only one guy in there."

A document inadvertently released to reporters here Monday disclosed that after the grenade was thrown, a U.S. operative killed another suspect and then shot Khadr twice in the back. The revelation casts doubt on the Pentagon's assertion that Khadr threw the grenade that fatally wounded Delta Force soldier and medic Christopher Speer.



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1. So once again the official story falls apart

If I only had a nickel for every time that happened.