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Sergeant First Class Layne Morris (b. 1962) is a retired soldier in an American Special Forces unit. Sergeant Morris was wounded and blinded in one eye during a fire-fight on July 27, 2002 that left Sergeant 1st Class Christopher J. Speer dead. The Canadian Omar Khadr, then fifteen and held since 2002 by the United States, is alleged to have been responsible for Speer's death. While it is frequently mistakenly reported that Speer and Morris were wounded by the same grenade, that is not true. Morris was injured and evacuated from the site of the skirmish hours before Speer was mortally wounded by a grenade.〔 (mirror ) 〕 Sergeant Morris retired from the military. He returned to his home in Utah, where he became a local West Valley City housing director in civilian life. He lives with his wife Leisl in South Jordan, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. He appeared in a National Geographic special, ''U.S. Army Special Forces'' (2003), and on 60 Minutes (2007).〔(Layne Morris ), IMDB〕 ==Civil suit== Khadr's father Achmed Said Khadr had been a close associate of Osama bin Laden and worked with members of Al-Qaeda; he was killed near the border of Afghanistan in 2004. Sergeant Morris joined with Sergeant Speer's widow, Tabitha Speer, in a legal civil suit against Achmed Khadr's estate. His argument is that since Omar Khadr was only fourteen, he could not be held responsible for his actions—but his father could. Normally "acts of war" are not subject to civil suits. Morris and Speer argued successfully that Khadr was a terrorist, not a soldier—so his actions were not exempted from civil suits. On February 16, 2006 U.S. District Judge Paul Cassell awarded Morris and Tabitha Speer triple damages, totalling $102.6 million.〔("GI injured in Afghan war wins lawsuit: Unique case: Court awards default judgment to man blinded in one eye" ), ''Salt Lake Tribune'', February 16, 2006〕 An article published in the June 14, 2007 ''Salt Lake Tribune'' said that Morris and Tabitha Speer might collect funds via the U.S. Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.〔 〕 A Treasury Department official had acknowledged that Ahmed Khadr's assets had been frozen, but said it was up to Morris and Speer to locate them. Senator Orrin Hatch had been asked to intervene and was "very interested". In January 2008, a U.S. Attorney claimed the US federal government to have "sovereign immunity" over the seized funds, asserting that it does not have to comply with a judgement in a civil suit.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Layne Morris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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