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Some military families who lost loved ones in Afghanistan are condemning news that the federal government has agreed to pay a multimillion-dollar settlement to former Guantanamo Bay inmate and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr.

The $10.5-million settlement and official apology from the government drew a swift reaction Tuesday, with some military families calling the deal a disgrace.

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“It’s totally disgraceful, totally disrespectful,” said Murray Marshall, whose son, Sapper Steven Marshall, was killed in Afghanistan in 2009.

“The kids that served and the families of the fallen, these are outstanding people and now we’re turning our back on all that. I can’t imagine what they’re thinking now.”

Khadr, who now lives in Edmonton, spent 10 years in a Guantanamo Bay prison cell after he was seriously injured in a firefight and captured from the rubble of a bombed out compound in Afghanistan in July 2002.