News  on the Speers family?  Other than suing Ahmed Khadr's estate, and then suing Omar with the complete opposite premise, and giving a bitter victim impact statement during his sentencing, the Speer family has kept a very low profile.

But how can you say Christopher Speer was killed "mercilessly"? Do you actually know how he died? I read the formerly secret after action report, and other accounts of the firefight. I don't think "merciless" applies.

I know Commander William Keubler strongly suspected that the fatal shrapnel fragment was from an American grenade, thrown by one of Speer's comrades, that went astray -- not by Omar who was already too badly wounded to have played a role in the final exchange of gunfire.

Friendly fire is a tragedy, and quite common.  over 40 percent of our side's casualties in the 1991 Gulf War were victims of blue on blue friendly fire.