Omar Khadr

The lawyer for the widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan said on July 4 that they have 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.

Stephen Xenakis, a retired brigadier general and US Army medical corps officer, is still haunted by a 2008 meeting at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a room that had previously been used for interrogations.