Posted on 12/19/2005 10:36:51 AM PST by FYREDEUS
Khadr to reappear at bail hearing Wednesday
The eldest son of an accused al Qaeda financier is scheduled to reappear in court on Wednesday, after attending a brief bail hearing this morning in Toronto.
Abdullah Khadr, 24, was arrested on Saturday night by the RCMP. He faces possible extradition to the U.S. for allegedly planning to kill American soldiers abroad.
The U.S. Justice Department alleges that Khadr had secured $20,000 US worth of rocket-propelled grenades, mortar rounds and grenades for al Qaeda forces fighting in Afghanistan.
Outside court, Khadr's younger brother said the family should be left alone.
"We've been in a war zone, what do you expect?'' said Abdurahman Khadr.
Khadr returned to Canada from Pakistan in early December. He had been held there since October 2004 when Pakistani intelligence officers arrested him in Islamabad.
He claims he was interrogated and tortured while in custody. He also says Canadian Security and Intelligence Service agents and RCMP officers visited him in the Pakistani prison.
Khadr was arrested Saturday shortly after the RCMP called his home, saying they needed to speak with him.
He was arrested under something known as a provisional warrant. Such warrants are issued based on accusations from another government -- in this case, the U.S.
Police also took Maha Elsamnah, Khadr's mother, into custody after the sight of them arresting her son incensed her. She is not facing any charges.
Prime Minister Paul Martin said Khadr will have all the rights of any Canadian citizen during a police investigation, despite the Khadr family's alleged links to al Qaeda.
"The family came (to Canada) many, many years ago and they obtained Canadian citizenship many years ago," Martin said in Regina on Sunday. "They have Canadian citizenship, and we don't have two classes of citizens."
"But the fact is the arrest warrants have been issued and the legal process will now take place.
Khadr is the eldest son of Ahmed Said Khadr. The Egyptian-born Canadian and accused al Qaeda financier was killed during a gun battle with Pakistani forces in 2003.
Each of the four Khadr brothers have been jailed at one time or another and accused of being linked to international terrorism.
Karim Khadr, 15, lives in Scarborough. A bullet wound in the gun battle with Pakistani security forces in which his father died left Karim paralyzed.
Omar Khadr, 19, is being held in the American detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S. officials have charged him with murder in the death of a U.S. medic in Afghanistan during a 2002 gun battle.
The Northern Alliance captured Abdurahman Khadr, 22, in Afghanistan. Abdurahman says he briefly worked for the CIA as an informant at Guantanamo Bay. He returned to Canada in December 2003 and is currently fighting a court case with the government to obtain a passport.
Besides the Khadr brothers, their 25-year-old sister Zaynab had her laptop, DVDs, cassettes and diaries seized when she arrived at Toronto's Pearson International Airport from Pakistan last February.
The laptop had a recording of the voice of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on it, and some of the DVDs showed videos of terrorists in action.
With reports from CTV's Denelle Balfour, Austin Delaney and files from The Canadian Press
Welcome back, you dreamed of a ticket out Welcome back to that same old West that you laughed about Well the Game has all changed since you hung around And your plots have remained but they've run aground Who'd have thought they'd lead ya (who'd have thought they'd lead ya) Back here where we caught ya (back here where we caught ya) Yeah, we'll Extradite you know, soon you'll be in Guantanimo...
With your bro. With your bro. With your bro. With your bro. With your bro. Welcome back.
Now toss the slimy terrorist criminal back out of our country to the Americans!
NICE job all around.
The Pakistanis dont have to take the domestic fallout for being the ones to hand him over to the Americans.
The Canadians get the domestic benefit of showing we dont want to be harbouring terrorists as Newt accused us of by handing him over to the Americans [after the necessary legalities].
And the Americans get another member of a vile terrorist family in Guantanimo where he belongs.
Win - Win - Win :-)
*in Hannibal Smith voice*
"I love it when a plan comes together"
lol.
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