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Layne MorrisSergeant Layne Morris is a soldier in an American Special Forces unit. Sergeant Morris was wounded during a skirmish on July 27th 2002. His comrade Christopher J. Speer was mortally wounded during this battle. Controversial 14 year-old Canadian moslem fighter Omar Khadr was captured during this skirmish. Khadr's father Achmed Said Khadr had been a close associate of Osama bin Laden and had helped fund al Queda. In a controversial move Sergeant Morris has joined with Sergeant Speer's widow, Tabitha Speer, in a legal action against Achmed Khadr's estate. His argument is that since Omar Khadr was only fourteen, he couldn't be held responsible for his actions -- but his father could. Normally "acts of war" are not subject to civil suits. Morris and Speer argue that Khadr was a terrorist, not a soldier -- so his actions were not an act of war, but terrorism, and were therefore subject to civil suits. Speer was wounded at the end of the skirmish, by a grenade thrown by Omar Khadr, after all his comrades had been killed. But Sergeant Morris was wounded at the beginning of the skirmish, so it is unclear whether one of Khadr's comrades wounded him. It is unknown whether Achmed Khadr left an estate. If he left one, it is unlikely to have been of much size. And if he left one it is likely that the Canadian government would think they should have first crack at it, because it would have consisted of stolen funds -- funds for which the donors got a charitable deduction on their income tax returns. If it was spent financing al Queda, or diverted to Khadr's personal account, then it was stolen from the ordinary Canadian taxpayer. External links
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