Just going to jump in here and say ... Omar Khadr's first trial was the most informative. It was a military tribunal that only got to pre-trial before being shut down by the newly elected Obama administration.
I followed it via news media from the Texas? town where it was held.
This is my memory of what I read:
A US soldier testified that he quickly looked around the wall, saw a large pile of debris and one remaining live and armed AlQuaeda fighter ... and THEN the grenade that killed Christopher Speer came over the wall.
When US soldiers went around the wall, the remaining armed AlQuaeda fighter was executed.
Then they heard moaning from the pile of debris, and found Omar Khadr under it, unarmed and severely injured. The US soldier testified that Omar Khadr could not have thrown the grenade because he was already under the pile of debris.
That US soldier was not heard from again in the subsequent trial, where it was expedient for Khadr to take a plea to minimize his jail time.
Surprisingly, I have now found mention of this in Canadian news:
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2008/03/13/lawyer_khadr_report_altered.htmlThe 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.
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.”Review here:
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/07/07/opinion/what-if-omar-khadr-isnt-guiltyThere are those (like Rebel Media) who don't care about truth, only about demonizing Muslims as 'terrorists'.
But I thought I'd just bring this up for other inquiring minds who might take an interest in this largely unknown bit of truth.
Khadr himself has acknowledged that he has no memory of those crucial moments (perhaps being already injured and under a pile of debris).
Less known, too, is that US soldiers shot him twice after finding him, until a senior officer heard him say he was Canadian. It's a miracle he survived, and he was potentially a huge embarrassment to the US military ...