http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/301316Soldier in 'shock' over leaked Khadr reportEx-U.S. Green Beret believed 15-year-old Canadian was only survivor of attack, contrary to new claimGUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba–A U.S. Special Forces soldier injured in the battle where Omar Khadr was captured says he was shocked to learn the Canadian teenager wasn't the only person alive in an Afghan compound 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 Khadr was the sole survivor in the compound.
"That was a total shock to me. Everyone had told me from the get-go that there was only one guy in there," Morris said in a telephone interview from his Utah home yesterday.
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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The five-page classified document, however, states that an unidentified operative reportedly saw someone with an AK-47 beside him, moving and "moaning" after the grenade was thrown. He shot him in the head, killing him. "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 ... (the operative) fired two rounds, both of which struck Khadr in the back."
It appears no one witnessed Khadr throwing the grenade, but that the operative concluded Khadr was responsible based on his position and the trajectory of the grenade.
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