Excerpts from OC-1 's secret testimony seemed to contradict the Prosecution 's earlier account that Khadr had been the sole survivor of an aerial bombardment that mortally wounded Green Beret Sergeant Christopher Speer . Morris commented : We 're confident that we 'll prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt once we get to the courtroom . That document has been disclosed at least three times over the past couple of years to the defence so there was nothing new or surprising in it . On 18 November 2008 Morris announced that he was filing new charges against Mohammed al Qahtani . The Bush administration acknowledged subjecting Al Qahtani to 58 days of sleep deprivation and other extreme interrogation methods in the fall of 2002 , when intelligence officials realized he had tried to travel to the United States in the months preceding al Qaeda 's September 11 attacks . Morris 's prosecution team had proposed charges against Al Qahtani to Susan Crawford in early 2008 . Crawford , the convening authority of military commissions , has the final say over whether charges are confirmed . She dropped the charges against al Qahtani because his " treatment met the legal definition of torture "
September 11 attacks
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Lawrence Morris