The widow of an American soldier killed in Afghanistan will ask a Canadian court on Thursday for an urgent order aimed at placing a hold on any money the federal government paid former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr.
A motion before Ontario Superior Court asks for a freeze on his money.
The government reportedly paid Khadr 10.5 million dollars last week -- pending the outcome of a request to recognize a 134.1-million-dollar American judgment against him.
The default American judgment was handed down in 2015 in Utah in favour of Sergeant Chris Speer's widow Tabitha and that of another former American soldier, Layne Morris.
Khadr has confessed -- but recanted that he threw a grenade that killed Speer and wounded Morris after a fierce battle in Afghanistan in July 2002.
Last Friday, the Canadian government apologized to Khadr as part of a settlement of his civil lawsuit for breaches of his rights during his imprisonment by the Americans in Guantanamo.