Screws Up, & Cover-ups Undermine WH Case Against Child Soldier.

Crooks and Liars:



Once again, the government has messed up, and is scrambling to cover its tracks:


Later in the day, a secret government document, disclosed by mistake, cast doubt on the very basis for the Bush administration’s case against Khadr…
The significance of the document was made clear by Khadr’s military defense counsel, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler. Asked to describe it later in the day, Lt. Cmdr. Kuebler said it dispelled what he referred to as a myth propagated by the government: that Khadr was the only person who could have lobbed the grenade that killed U.S. soldier Christopher Speer — the basis of the most serious charge against him. The document, created in 2004, turned out to be an interview of a witness to Khadr’s capture. In it, the witness describes finding two people alive in the Afghan compound in which Khadr was captured — the witness shot and killed the first man before he saw Khadr. Then, according to Lt. Cmdr. Kuebler, Khadr, who was 15 years old at the time, “was shot on sight — in the back — twice — while wounded, sitting and leaning against a wall facing away from his attackers.”