Lawyers for Canadian Terror Suspect Say US Military Commander Altered Evidence

[babylonsister]

US accused of altering Gitmo evidence

Lawyers for Canadian Terror Suspect Say US Military Commander Altered Evidence

MICHAEL MELIA
AP News

Mar 13, 2008 13:38 EST


A U.S. military commander altered a report on a firefight in Afghanistan to cast blame for the death of a Delta Force commando on a Canadian youth who was captured after the shooting stopped, a defense attorney said Thursday.

The attorney, Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, made the allegation at a pretrial hearing as he argued for access to the officer, identified only as "Col. W," as well as details about interrogations that he said might help clear his client of war-crimes charges.

The U.S. military has charged Omar Khadr with murder for throwing a grenade that killed Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer during a U.S. military raid on July 27, 2002, on an al-Qaida compound in eastern Afghanistan. Khadr's case is on track to be the first to go to trial under a military tribunal system at this U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.

The military commander's official report the day after the raid originally said the assailant who threw the grenade was killed, which would rule out Khadr as the suspect. But the report was revised months later, under the same date, to say a U.S. fighter had only "engaged" the assailant, according to Kuebler, who said the later version was presented to him by prosecutors as an "updated" document.

Kuebler told reporters after the hearing that it appears "the government manufactured evidence to make it look like Omar was guilty."

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[Parche]

1. Al-Kida Is Not Real Anyway

:hi:

[Arctic Dave]

2. Let's see if I got this straight.

This guy was sent to Gitmo for killing an armed military person during a combat mission. If he's in Gitmo for that shouldn't all the troops who killed people in Iraq and Afghanistan be in prison also by this logic.

[Disturbed]

3. US forces attack people in Afghanistan.

When those people fight back & are captured they are accused of being a Terrorist.

That is the logic being applied now.