Suing under the Patriot Act, Sgt. Layne Morris, a soldier who was blinded in one eye during a firefight in Afghanistan, and the family of Army medic Christopher Speer who was killed in the firefight, won a $102.6 million judgment against a father accused of training his young son to be a terrorist:
Morris, who served with the 19th Special Forces, cited news reports - including interviews with his attacker's immediate family - indicating that Omar Khadr, then 15, had wounded him and killed Speer. Similar evidence also showed that the boy's father, Ahmad Sa'id Khadr, was bagman to the terrorist organization al-Qaida and trained his son to attack American targets.On July 27, 2002, Morris and Speer were attacked by al-Qaida members while searching for foreign fighters in a remote Afghanistan village. The terrorists threw grenades at the soldiers, who were outside the compound's walls, and shot at them with automatic weapons. Shrapnel severed the optic nerve in Morris' right eye.
When soldiers rushed the compound, wounding the boy and killing all other insurgents, Omar Khadr purportedly threw another grenade that killed Speer. He was immediately arrested and is being held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
The U.S. government has charged the younger Khadr with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and aiding the enemy.
The Khadr family moved from Canada to Pakistan, where the father co-founded an organization funding al-Qaida terrorist training camps. the elder Khadr arranged for his son to be trained in the use of rifles, pistols, explosives, land mines and rocket-propelled grenades. The father was killed in a firefight in Pakistan. The U.S. and Canadian governments have frozen the assets of the elder Khadr.
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