Thank you for the additional background which certainly amplifies on my simplistic description of Davis having a “reputation as a hot dog.”

In his comments Davis made some serious factual errors. He criticized Khadr for not being grateful to US medics who saved his life. He said that medics stepped over the dead body of their buddy to treat Khadr's wounds. In fact, Christopher Speer, the GI who was mortally wounded that day, wasn't dead, and only died of his head wounds two weeks later. It was a discrepancy I noticed at the time, and of which I thought Davis should have been aware of. I assumed Davis knew it, but trusted the public wouldn't.

Early this month Khadr had his most recent hearing. The package of documents handed out to reporters was supposed to contain a five page witness statement from the GI who shot Khadr that was so heavily redacted to be useless. By accident this witness statement was released in the clear, unredacted.

It revealed that the case against Khadr was much weaker than claimed. This eyewitness confirmed that, as anyone would expect, American medics only treated the heavily wounded Khadr after the heavily wounded Speer had been treated.

It also revealed that all the claims that Khadr must have been the sole survivor was a lie.

It revealed that the grenade was thrown over a three metre wall. No one saw the thrower.

It revealed that the GI who shot Khadr testified the grenade was not the first sign of survivors. He testified that there was “directed rifle fire” that preceded the grenade. When he saw the grenade he spurted past the mouth of the “alley” where the rifle fire and grenade originated, firing as he went.

When the dust cleared, and he looked back into this alley he saw a survivor, moaning on the ground, next to an AK-47, and he shot him in the head. Then he saw another figure, facing away from the skirmish, sitting, leaning against a bush. He shot this figure twice, in the back.

Davis must have read this account. But, in public, he presented a very different, highly colored version.