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  Ahmed Said Khadr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ahmed Said Khadr (1945-2003) (sometimes called Ahmed Saeed Abdur Rehman Khadar) was an Egyptian-Canadian man living in Afghanistan, who was a supporter of al-Qaeda and an associate of Osama bin Laden.
Khadr's name became widely known in Canada in 1996, when he was arrested by the Pakistani government for an alleged role in a terrorist bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad.
Khadr was killed in Afghanistan in 2003 during a shootout with Pakistani soldiers.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahmed_Said_Khadr   (498 words)

  
 Khadr family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Khadr family is an Arabic-Canadian family, notable for their ties to the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization coupled with their Canadian nationality.
In 2003, his father was killed in a shootout with Pakistani soldiers; during the same shootout, Abdul Karim Khadr was wounded in the spine with a bullet.
As he was wheeled through the airport, Khadr was asked by reporters what he thought of his return; he merely flashed a peace sign and smiled.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdul_Karim_Khadr   (451 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Khadr
Khadr and four others charged with serious charges are entitled to "representation by a military defense counsel free of charge with the option to retain a civilian defense counsel at no expense to the U.S. government," according to a statement on the U.S. Department of Defence website.
Abdul Karim Khadr is reportedly paralysed in the shootout.
The Khadr family demands that Abdul Karim and the body of Ahmed Said Khadr be returned to Canada.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/khadr/timeline.html   (1169 words)

  
 Khadr tells of torture by U
Khadr's testimony in a federal court hearing last month reveals, in detail, the conditions that he and other prisoners faced after their capture in Afghanistan and upon transfer to the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
When he asked why he, as an informant, had to suffer, soldiers told him it was to make the prisoners think he was one of them, he said.
And when they returned, they told Khadr stories of being locked in a room that was filled with smoke or having a mixture of feces and blood wiped on their faces, Khadr said.
www.ccmep.org /2004_articles/afghanistan/082304_khadr.htm   (1255 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Pakistan Deports Son of Canadian Linked to Al Qaeda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Khadr's now-deported youngest son was wounded in a gunbattle during the raid in the North Waziristan tribal region near Afghan border in which his father and seven others were killed.
Said Khadr was arrested in Pakistan in 1996 on suspicion of financing a bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad the previous year.
Another Khadr son, Omar, is in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and is accused of being involved in a fatal attack on a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/04/10/pakistan_deports_son_of_canadian_linked_to_al_qaeda   (399 words)

  
 Documentary portrays Osama as family man -DAWN - International; 07 March, 2004
Said Khadr was killed in a gunbattle with police in Pakistan in October, and his son, Omar, 17, is in US custody in Guantanamo Bay accused of involvement in the death of a US soldier in Afghanistan.
Said Khadr's 23-year-old daughter Zaynab said Osama - who attended her wedding in 1999 - was athletic.
Ahmed Said Khadr was arrested in Pakistan in 1996 on suspicion of financing a fatal bombing of the Egyptian embassy there.
www.dawn.com /2004/03/07/int6.htm   (641 words)

  
 Canadian Gitmo Detainee 'Dropped Into Afghanistan'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Spokesman Reynald Doiron said Khadr chose not to return to Canada upon his release and refuted reports that Khadr was being denied a Canadian passport from embassy officials.
Ahmed's wife and daughter were denied Canadian passports in order to leave Pakistan six months ago, Galati said, so the officials in Islamabad must have known who Khadr was.
Doiron said that the Khadr name is so well known to consular officials that the minute a member of the family arrives on a consular doorstep, officials in Ottawa know about it.
www.rense.com /general45/dropped.htm   (710 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ahmed Said Khadr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Abdullah Khadr is a member of the Khadr family and the oldest son of Ahmed Said Khadr, a senior member of the al Queda cadre.
Abdurahman Khadr (born 1983) is a United States at Guantanamo Bay after being detained in Afghanistan and alleged to have had connections to al_Qaida.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ahmed-Said-Khadr   (1000 words)

  
 Bin Laden ally backs Khadr civil suit - Tranceaddict Forums
Khadr and his 14-year-old son, Abdulkarim Khadr, both of whom were reported to have been involved in a skirmish with Pakistani security forces in early October near the Pakistani-Afghan border.
Khadr's daughter, who is one of the petitioners in the lawsuit along with her mother, Maha Elsamnah.
Khadr said she last heard from her father and brother last September, about a month before the raid by Pakistani forces on a suspected al-Qaeda safe house in Angoor Adda in South Waziristan.
www.tranceaddict.com /forums/showthread/t-151250.html   (865 words)

  
 PolySciFi Blog
Ahmed Said Khadr had a long standing relationship with Bin Laden (Bin Laden attended the wedding of Khadr's daughter Zaynab and the Khadr family attended the wedding of Bin Laden's son Muhamad).
To beat a dead horse, the conclusion that Khadr was a terrorist running a terrorist camp seems all the more likely in light of his death.
Said Khadr: Acknowledged long time Bin Laden associate, gave financial aid to al Qaeda, sent charity workers and his sons to train in the Afghanistan terrorist camps, died with a gun in his hand fighting the Islamist fight, scion of an al Qaeda family.
polyscifi.blogspot.com /2005/02/mahmad-arar.html   (1923 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | 'We're Canada's al-Qaeda family'
Abdurahman Khadr said he had been "raised to become a suicide bomber" by his father, who was killed in a Pakistani military operation last year.
Khadr was released after agreeing to co-operate with US authorities, but his brother is still in the Cuba base.
He said he and his brothers were sent to Afghanistan to train with al-Qaeda by their father Ahmed Said Khadr, an Egyptian-born Canadian who is thought to have ranked high in the organisation.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3534195.stm   (289 words)

  
 CBC News:Pakistan now says Canadian survived al-Qaeda raid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
It said Ahmed Khadr and his son were among the people killed when Pakistani forces raided Waziristan, looking for al-Qaeda members, perhaps even Osama bin Laden and his deputy.
In 1996, Khadr was arrested in Pakistan on suspicion of financing the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad.
Khadr was born in Egypt but moved to Ottawa in 1975 where he studied computers.
www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/10/16/khadr031016   (436 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.03.05 - RCMP visited me in Kabul: Khadr, Son of family with ties to Al Qaeda passed poly
He said he was almost at the point of suicide when he asked to be removed from the prison camp.
Last September, Khadr said, the CIA provided him with a training course in undercover work, then he was given a false passport and sent to Bosnia, where he was to blend in with the transient Muslim population in Sarajevo.
Khadr said he was afraid and called his grandmother in Toronto, telling her that he desperately wanted to come back to Canada.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/03/282154.shtml   (1143 words)

  
 frontline: son of al qaeda: inside the khadr family: chronology | PBS
The Khadr family patriarch was arrested and accused of complicity in a terrorist bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad that killed 15 people.
Abdurahman Khadr says he was in an Al Qaeda guesthouse in Afghanistan when he heard the news of the bombings.
Khadr was holed up in a house in the Pakistani province of Waziristan when the Pakistani army received a tip that senior Al Qaeda figures were in the house.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/khadr/family/cron.html   (1709 words)

  
 Daimnation!: Canada's first family of Islamofascism
CBC News has revealed that the family of Ahmed Said Khadr, killed in a battle between Islamic terrorists and Pakistani soldiers last fall, had strong ties to Al-Qaida and even to Osama himself.
Ahmed Said Khadr became known to Canadians in 1996, when he was arrested in Pakistan and accused of complicity in a terrorist bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, a bombing that killed 15 people.
Ahmed Said Khadr's wife and some of their children came to Chrétien's hotel in Islamabad to plead the case of her husband.
www.damianpenny.com /archived/002408.html   (316 words)

  
 Jihad Watch: Canadian terror suspect confirmed dead in Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Khadr had been arrested in Pakistan in 1995 after the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad was bombed, but he was later released.
Abdurahman Khadr had said in Canada last month that his brother Omar also was being held at Guantanamo, and he called for his release.
Abdullah Khadr, the youngest son of Ahmed Said Khadr, is the third of his children to be taken into custody by forces fighting terrorism.
www.jihadwatch.org /archives/2004/01/000732print.html   (364 words)

  
 Email me" returned terrorist invites Canadians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The late Ahmed Said Khadr, officially identified as Canada’s highest-ranking member of Al Qaeda, was set free from a Pakistani prison, when Prime Minister Jean Chretien intervened on his behalf.
Though the outspoken daughter of the notorious Khadr family seemed to have softened her views on Canadians: "I don’t like the society here but it doesn’t mean I’ll judge everyone here because of the society that they’re living in," she remains unabashedly anti-American.
Khadr was given emergency travel documents, similar to those provided to her brother Abdurahman, to return to Canada.
www.torontofreepress.com /2005/cover022605.htm   (693 words)

  
 Ahmed Said Khadr - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Khadr immigrated to Canada from Egypt as a young man. He and his wife Maha Elsamnah, a Palestinian-Canadian who he met after his arrival, had six children, among which are four sons, Omar, Abdullah, Abdurahman, and Abdul Karim; and two daughters, Zaynab and a younger daughter who is still a minor.
Khadr then founded his own charity, Health and Education Project International.
Press release (http://action.web.ca/home/sap/media.shtml?x=57414andAA_EX_Session=e02af927aab5f04dd3bee4c92c4e9d71) from the charity Human Concern International saying they cut their ties with Khadr in 1995, and that he then set up his own charity, Health and Education Project International.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Ahmed_Said_Khadr   (523 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - U.S. interrogators tortured 18-year-old detainee, lawyers say   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Ahmad said U.S. military police short-shackled Khadr and chained his hands and feet to a bolt in the floor, laughing while they forced him into painful and degrading positions and kept him that way for hours.
Ahmad said Khadr told him the military police then poured cleaning fluid on the floor and while he was still shackled, they dragged him through the liquid.
Khadr's mother and grandmother, both dressed in traditional white chadors wept and embraced at a news conference where Ahmad gave details of the alleged torture.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-02-09-canada-gitmo-abuse_x.htm   (705 words)

  
 Canadian Documentary Shows Bin Laden as Family Man (washingtonpost.com)
Khadr was killed in a gun battle with Pakistani police last October, and his son, Omar, 17, is in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay accused of involvement in the death of a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan.
Khadr's 23-year-old daughter Zaynab, who lives with her mother in Pakistan, said bin Laden was athletic.
Zaynab said bin Laden imposed many restrictions on his three wives and their children and banned the use of electricity in their part of the compound.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A30138-2004Mar4.html   (747 words)

  
 Reuters AlertNet - Canadian freed from Guantanamo now stranded-lawyer
Khadr's younger brother Omar, 17, is in the U.S. prison in Cuba, accused of involvement in a fatal attack on a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan.
Khadr is a Canadian citizen and does not have dual Egyptian citizenship, despite reports that said otherwise, Galati said.
Ahmed Said Khadr -- whose whereabouts are unknown -- was arrested in Pakistan in 1996 on suspicion of financing the fatal bombing of the Egyptian embassy in 1995.
www.alertnet.org /thenews/newsdesk/N25429102.htm   (724 words)

  
 Free Will: Daily libertarian conservative news and commentary!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In fact, when Khadr was arrested in Pakistan in 1995 over connections to a plot to bomb the Egyptian embassy, Chretien paid a personal visit to Pakistan and demanded his release, which was granted.
Khadr on national television not long ago claimed to be a close associate of Osama bin Laden, claimed to embrace the views of al-Qaida - views which focus on the extermination of Jews, the killing of peace-loving Muslims and attacking democracies," said Day, referring to the woman's comments on CBC-TV's The National earlier this year.
Khadr) would be accorded the full rights of Canadian citizenship when she and her family.
www.freewillblog.com /index.php/weblog/comments/3139   (1291 words)

  
 Bin Laden cast as family man who loves volleyball, hates ice - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Khadr was killed in a gun battle with Pakistani police last October, and his son, Omar, 17, is in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, accused of involvement in the death of a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan.
Khadr’s 23-year-old daughter, Zaynab, said bin Laden -- who attended her wedding in 1999 -- was athletic.
The Khadrs lived in the bin Laden family compound in the Afghan town of Jalalabad for several years, leaving soon before U.S. forces attacked Afghanistan in 2001.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4456924   (824 words)

  
 Al Qaeda suspect says he worked for CIA -DAWN - International; 07 March, 2004
Khadr, who lives in Toronto with his family, is the son of Ahmed Said Khadr, an Egyptian-born Canadian, who was killed last October in Pakistan.
Khadr senior was fingered by Western intelligence services as an Al Qaeda operative and a leader of the network.
To protect his cover, Mr Khadr said he was treated like a normal prisoner, chained in a plane on the journey from Afghanistan, and kept in isolation for a month when he first arrived.
www.dawn.com /2004/03/07/int2.htm   (409 words)

  
 frontline: son of al qaeda: interviews: maha & zaynab khadr | PBS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
They also say they are proud that Ahmed Said Khadr died as a martyr for Islam and express their frustration with U.S. involvement in the Middle East.
Some said my dad was killed, and some said my dad was alive, and some said my dad had escaped or that he was a prisoner.
So if you go back to how it all started, he did ask very nicely, and the people with him did ask, they said we are not enemies of the kingdom, we are not enemies of the army, we are not enemies of the government.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/khadr/interviews/mahazaynab.html   (8868 words)

  
 Dawson Creek - canada.com network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
According to the indictment, Khadr's father, Ahmed Said Khadr, was a "senior member" of al-Qaida who used his Toronto charity, Health and Education Projects International, to finance terrorist training camps.
The indictment accused Khadr of throwing the hand grenade that killed a U.S. medic, Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer, and indicates he will be tried by military commission.
Khadr's sister Zaynab, who lives in Toronto, and eldest brother Abdullah, currently held in Pakistan, are still under RCMP investigation.
www.canada.com /dawsoncreek/story.html?id=86212938-014b-412a-993c-b7f84c2bd708   (422 words)

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