Mike Silver

Mike Silver

Mike Silver is an officer in the United States Army.cite news
url=http://www.counterpunch.org/worthington11152007.html
title=Guantánamo's Child Soldier: The Trials of Omar Khadr
publisher=Counterpunch
author=Andy Worthington
date=November 15, 2007
accessdate=2008-02-10
] cite paper
title=The good son
page=
pages=
publisher=National Post
author=Isabel Vincent
date=December 28, 2002
accessdate=2008-02-10
]

Silver was a member of a platoon of Green Berets that was involved in a controversial skirmish in Afghanistan on July 27 2002.

A squad from Silver's unit surrounded a compound where they had been tipped off some opposition fighters were staying. An American sergeant, two Afghan auxiliaries, and four of the five militants were killed or were mortally wounded. The surviving occupant of the opposition compound was fifteen-year-old Canadian Omar Khadr, the son of a Ahmed Said Khadr, a charity worker reported to have close ties to Osama bin Laden. Ahmed Khadr is reported to have assigned Omar to serve as an interpreter for Abu Laith Al Libi, a senior member of al Qaeda's leadership, described as al Qaeda'a third in command.

Khadr was sent to Guantanamo, where he faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission.

Notably, Silver's role in the skirmish has been described in multiple incompatible versions.

On February 5 2008 members of the press were issued a package of documents that contained an unredacted classified document that case doubt on all previous official accounts of the skirmish.

This five page document, the statement of OC-1, stated that Khadr was not the sole occupant of the compound, and that, when he was shot, in the back, he was sitting, facing away from the skirmish, leaning against a wall.

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