Friendly fire might have killed U.S. medic, not Khadr: lawyer

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Source: CBC

The U.S. soldier alleged to have been killed in Afghanistan by Canadian Omar Khadr might in fact have been struck by a grenade from a fellow American troop, Khadr's lawyer argued at a pre-trial hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Navy Lt.-Cmdr William Kuebler raised the friendly-fire theory Friday as a U.S. military tribunal heard arguments leading up to Khadr's murder trial.

Khadr, who has been a prisoner at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo for six years, is accused of killing Special Forces Sgt. Christopher Speer during an intense firefight in 2002.

But Kuebler said when American soldiers invaded the suspected al-Qaeda compound where Khadr and others were hiding, some U.S. troops were throwing grenades. Kuebler said Speer might have been hit by an American grenade, not the grenade that Khadr threw.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/04/11/guantanamo-khadr.html

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1. This whole damn thing is an unfunny farce......