Layne Morris

Khadr, a Canadian child soldier of Egyptian and Palestinian descent, was captured by American troops at Ayub Kheyl shortly after the gunfight; he was alleged to have thrown the grenade that had killed Speer and wounded Morris, and was subsequently detained at Bagram Airfield. By late 2002, he was transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, where he eventually pled guilty to killing Speer. Khadr's lawyers allege that he was tortured into confessing. In 2012, Khadr was released from American custody and handed over to the Canadian government. Morris, along with Speer's widow, filed a civil suit against Khadr's father, who allegedly had close ties with al-Qaeda. Their claim held Khadr's father responsible for Khadr's actions, as the latter was a legal minor — aged 15 at the time of the incident.

Morris retired from the military. He returned to his home in Utah, where he became a housing director in West Valley City. He appeared in the National Geographic Society program U.S. Army Special Forces in 2003 and also interviewed on 60 Minutes in 2007. An official from the U.S. Treasury Department had acknowledged that Ahmed's assets had been frozen, but said it was up to Morris and Speer to locate them. American senator Orrin Hatch had been asked to intervene and was "very interested" in the case.

In January 2008, an American attorney claimed that the federal government had "sovereign immunity" over the seized funds, asserting that it did not have to comply with a judgement in a civil suit:

"Although sovereign immunity may be waived, there is no waiver in this case."|Motion submitted by Jeffrey A. Taylor, U.S. attorney "I guess I don't agree with giving these people all of the legal rights that citizens have," "I think everyone on both sides of the political aisle just wants to see some sort of resolution to their status and I guess it's just going to take longer now to figure out how that process is going to work."

In 2008, a five-page statement from an American soldier who shot Khadr said that the youth had not been the only occupant of the compound to have survived the American aerial bombardment. He said further that Khadr had been shot in the back; he was sitting upright with his back to the skirmish. This cast doubt on assertions that Khadr had thrown the grenade that killed Speer.

In a telephone interview with Michelle Shephard of the Toronto Star, Morris insisted: "That was a total shock to me. Everyone had told me from the get-go that there was only one guy in there."

"Instead of surrendering and calling it a day, he made the decision to wait until personnel got close enough that he could restart the battle, pop up and throw a hand grenade." "I'm fine with this dragging on for another five years before there's a trial as long as they stay locked up."

Canada's settlement with the Khadr family Morris criticized the Canadian government for paying out CA$10.5M to Khadr, describing it as “outrageous” in a letter. He called for Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau to be charged with treason, accusing him of being a "groupie" and "supporter" of Omar Khadr. He asserted that "it was wrong" for the Canadian government to settle Khadr's lawsuit, and that it should have been taken to court instead.