Posted on 06/14/2005 10:54:22 PM PDT by Antioch
Plans, tapes diaries seized at Pearson airport Zaynab Khadr denies they belong to her
OTTAWAThe RCMP and Canadian military believe they've discovered a vital cache of information on Al Qaeda that includes the whereabouts of wanted members and details of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan.
The information is allegedly contained in a laptop, dozens of DVDs, audiocassettes and the pages of diaries, seized by the RCMP officers who met Zaynab Khadr at Pearson airport with a search warrant as she arrived back in Canada in February, court documents state.
Khadr is the eldest daughter of a family that has admitted close ties to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and whose patriarch was once believed to be the highest-ranking Canadian member of Al Qaeda. Her younger brother, Omar, is currently Canada's only known detainee in the American camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
With the three-month time limit allotted to the federal police force to hold the items having now expired, the RCMP must go to a Toronto court this Friday to persuade a judge to allow them to continue doing a forensic evaluation of the seized materials. But Khadr's lawyer Dennis Edney says the Mounties are on nothing more than a "fishing expedition," and will argue that Khadr is entitled to her possessions.
Khadr, 25, said in an interview yesterday that anything found on the laptop, except personal pictures and a few "cartoons" that she downloaded, are not hers. She says she bought her laptop second-hand about seven months before coming to Canada. The audiocassettes, described in court documents as providing "significant information regarding `after-battle action reports' of Al Qaeda and Taliban insurgents" involved in attacking coalition forces in Afghanistan, were found among her father's possessions after he was killed in 2003, Khadr said.
"I think it's my right to bring what I want since I'm not breaking any laws, so I decided to bring them," she said. "Although I don't know what's on them, I still thought I'd bring them."
Khadr has not been charged in Canada or Pakistan, where she lived with her young daughter and sister before returning to Scarborough to be with her mother and brothers.
The court documents state there are "still a number of steps" to be taken in the investigation, that cannot be disclosed, but that her written records are being studied by the RCMP's behavioural sciences unit for a "psychological analysis" and to determine if she is a "threat to society."
Among her possessions, the RCMP allege, are downloaded clips of bin Laden's voice and songs one titled "I am a Terrorist" which contain excerpts from speeches calling for the killing of Americans. There is also allegedly a video clip of a 2003 attack on a compound used by Westerners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and cassettes about insurgent attacks in Afghanistan. Canada has troops stationed in Afghanistan.
"(T)hey provide insights into the tactics, techniques and procedures by these insurgent groups," the documents allege. "They (also) provide time and place information regarding activities of key Al Qaeda and Taliban personalities who are presently at large and operating against coalition troops."
The seven-page affidavit by RCMP Sgt. Konrad Shourie, filed last month in the Ontario Court of Justice, provides rarely revealed details about the terrorism investigation.
The Khadr family has created its share of controversy. Khadr's father, Egyptian-born and Canadian citizen Ahmed Said Khadr, generated enough public pressure in 1996 to convince prime minister Jean Chrétien to intervene when he was facing charges in Pakistan in connection with the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad. He died in a battle in Pakistan in October 2003. After the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks he was put on a list of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists. His family's connections to bin Laden were confirmed three years later with a documentary where his son, Abdurahman, admitted to growing up in an "Al Qaeda family."
OPEN BORDERS BUMP
Have you hugged an Islamofascist today? Reach out. Make them feel at home. They're just like you and I.
< /major nearly insane policy supporting sarcasm >
I consider myself completely wired, yet some of these enemy are far more technologically geared than me. Further, even if you examined my computer in detail, you would learn very little about my life and plans.
I almost wonder if they're planting misinformation on these laptops.
But Khadr's lawyer Dennis Edney says the Mounties are on nothing more than a "fishing expedition," and will argue that Khadr is entitled to her possessions.
Basically, what the lawyer is saying is, she is entitled to stuff that doesn't belong to her...Sounds so typically liberal...
Their communications networks have been severly hampered or are compromised. The easiest way to communicate is upload all pertinent info on to a lap top and take the entire thing. You can burn info onto CDs, but then can't add to it most of the time.
What info? I conduct my life with almost zero records (generated by myself of course. Others keep mailing me junk.) Most people retain vast amounts of information in their heads, and what they can't fits on a scrap of paper.
For a bunch so scared of women they sure do love to keep diaries...
Details of their life with Osama bin Laden, and the uproar in Canada after the mother and brother - both Al Qaeda sympathizers - returned there in April 2004 to seek medical help for the son.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck it must be a ducky islamic liar.
Every time some Fed or soldier comes across a cache of weapons, there's always a laptop in the pile.
I then proceeded to ask myself the same question you raise, and myself said "Yeah, I think they are"
Remember the mantra...
From Brownsville to San Diego and from Maine to Washington
BUILD THE WALL
Saw her head off. Convert her children.
Our Canadian "friends" again.
Screw the fence, We need a forcefield!
Unreal....
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