Poll: $10.5M for Khadr

Castanet Staff - Jul 5, 2017 / 7:23 pm | Story: 201118

Photo: The Canadian Press

The lawyer for the widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan has filed an application so that any money paid by the Canadian government to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner convicted of killing him will go toward the widow and another U.S. soldier injured.

Lawyer Don Winder made the comments as a decision by the Canadian government to apologize and give $10.5 million to Omar Khadr came under mounting criticism.

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