Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr tossed a grenade "with the specific intent of killing or injuring as many Americans as he could" at the end of a July 2002 firefight in Afghanistan, according to a stipulation of the facts document Khadr signed as part of his guilty plea.
The document says that when Khadr was interviewed three months later he said, "He felt happy when he heard that he had killed an American," a reference to Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer, a member of a U.S. Army Special Forces unit, who died as the result of his wounds from a grenade.
The statement of facts Khadr signed also says he would think back on his actions and the death of the American soldier when he was aggravated by his guards in Bagram, Afghanistan, and "it would make him feel good."
Khadr, a 24-year-old Canadian citizen and the youngest detainee held at Guantanamo, pleaded guilty to murder, material support for terrorism and other charges Monday, which means an early end to the first military commission trial conducted during the Obama administration.
The sentencing phase of Khadr's case is now under way and is expected to conclude by the end of the week. The charges carry a maximum of life in prison.
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