Posted on 12/19/2005 11:18:36 AM PST by Stultis
TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A man accused of purchasing weapons for al Qaeda confessed to U.S. and Canadian authorities that he bought the firearms for use against U.S. forces in Afghanistan, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
In an affidavit submitted to the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, where Abdullah Khadr appeared at a preliminary hearing, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Konrad Shourie said Khadr admitted his ties to senior al Qaeda members. Shourie said Khadr confessed to having purchased guns and rocket launchers and his role in a plot to assassinate the Pakistani prime minister.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
So much for this POS being innocent. Too bad we don't execute in Canada. Maybe he can get lost and accidentally find himself in the US and be denied extradition back to Canada.
Were any panties involved?........
Put some moose anlers on his head. Yell, "Huntin' season open!"........
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I'm not sure why it took so long to finger him. He's been bad news ever since we first heard of him many months ago.
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=3104
Canada arrests son of Islamist militant according to US warrant
19/12/2005
Asharq Al-Awsat, London- The Canadian authorities arrested the son of an Islamist militant with ties to Osama bin Laden, just weeks after he returned from Pakistan, acting on a US warrant.
Abdullah, the eldest son of Ahmad Said Khadr, was arrested after flying back to Toronto from Pakistan where he was detained for fourteen months without charge. He was arrested, in Scarborough, at approximately 7p.m on Saturday, in a restaurant near his house, where he went to meet a Canadian police officer, according to lawyer Dennis Edney in Edmonton on Sunday.
His father, an Egyptian-born Canadian and friend of Osama bin Laden, was killed in a gun battle with Pakistani forces in Waziristan in 2003. He was accused of being a fundraiser for al Qaeda.
Maha al Samnah, Abdullah’s mother who was with him at the time, tried to intervene on behalf of her son. She was taken into custody and later released. Abdul Rahman, another son, also witnessed the arrest.
In a telephone conversation with Asharq al Awsat, al Samnah revealed her son was tricked into meeting the police at a fast food restaurant. She expressed her shock at the US warrant and the authorities’ desire to question her son again, after he was interrogated in Pakistan.
Abdullah returned to Canada in early December and was accompanied by two Canadian police officers from Islamabad. The police announced at the time that he was a free man and would not be charged for terrorism-related activities.
Al Samnah indicated she was very upset and worried about the fate of her son and was finding it difficult to take care of her youngest of four, Karim, aged 15, who is paralyzed. His brother Omar, aged 19, is currently held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Officials have charged him with murder of a U.S medic in Afghanistan in 2002.
“I felt hope had returned to our family after my son Abdullah and my daughters Zaynab, aged 25 and Maryam, 13, with my 4-year-old granddaughter Safiya, returned to Toronto from Islamabad”, she said.
Abdullah is sought in Massachusetts for possession of a destructive device, conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals outside the country and conspiracy to use a destructive device against U.S. nationals and U.S. property outside the country.
Al Samnah denied these charges and told Asharq al Awsat she was certain her son would be released. Abdullah appeared on Sunday in court to examine the U.S. extradition request.
In an interview with Asharq al Awsat in April, Abdullah revealed he was obliged to travel constantly in order to evade the U.S. authorities who accuse him of being an instructor at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan.
He rejected claims reported in the Western media that he had taught at a military camps but did not deny he received training in using light weapons.
Fluent in Persian, Pashto, Urdu and English, Abdullah told Asharq al Awsat he left Afghanistan in 2002 where he attended Khaldan camp but has not returned since.
Ahmad Said Khadr, also known as the Canadian Abu Abdul Rahman, a leading figure in Islamic Jihad, headed by Ayman al Zawahiri, bin Laden’s deputy, was accused by the Egyptian authorities of financing the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, in 1996.
Abdullah and his siblings grew up in Ontario before moving to Scarborough, a suburb of Toronto. He then travelled to Pakistan and Afghanistan with his father to study religion in Kandahar, then under Taliban rule.
Thread from yesterday on the arrest...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542776/posts
More information on the fellow just arrested:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/khadr/interviews/abdullah.html
And here's the website for the PBS Frontline episode on his brother
(if I understand the family tree correctly):
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/khadr/
Thanks for the excellent precis...Slightly off topic..but with regards to the rumors/reports that OBL may have been killed ( buried alive?) in the earthquake in Pakistan....does the report gain more credence if we don't hear from him in a few more months..?
Damn, that is one spooky arab news site..
This kid grew up at the knee of Osama Bin Laden...his daddy and Binny were best buds. I'm kind of shocked he confessed.
That is one of the better arab news sites..
Maybe Russert can take up a collection for the would be murderer. After all, his civil right to plot the murder of innocents has been violated.
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2239/2005-12-20/38@288537.htmEach of the four Khadr brothers have been jailed at one time or another and accused of being linked to international terrorism.
Karim Khadr, 15, now lives in Scarborough of Toronto. 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 in Cuba. US officials have charged him with murder in the death of a US medic in Afghanistan during a 2002 gun battle.
The Northern Alliance captured Abdurahman Khadr, 22, in Afghanistan. He returned to Canada in December 2003 and is currently fighting a court case with the government to obtain a passport.
Abdurahman, the last one, is the figure profiled in the Frontline documentary. He claims that he was always the black sheep of the family, a delusatory student of his father's hate agenda, and that he was shocked into running away by the 911 (which everyone around him celebrated). I tend to believe him because the rest of his family never mentions him and have appeared to disown him.
Hopefully we will wrap him up as a Christmas Gift and send him directly to Gitmo
i guess it's ok since they don't kill Canadians. As long as they kill people of every nationality except Canaidians, they meet the non-discrimination standard and thus deserve safe-haven from which to carry out their atrocities.
If even France can strip these kind of thugs of their citizenship and deport them, surely Canada can. It's just a question of will.
It seems like there's more to this story though. Something about the family being involved in a beating of a reporter or something and the Canadian Govt taking their side. Don't remember it very clearly though.
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