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Great White North
Sex assault charges for Khadr family member
2010-06-15
The partially paralyzed son of the late Canadian al-Qaeda associate Ahmed Said Khadr has been arrested in Toronto for alleged sexual exploitation of a minor.
Canada's favourite terrorist family.
Abdulkareem Ahmed Khadr, 21, was arrested 10 days ago by Toronto Police and is scheduled to appear before the Ontario Court of Justice on July 15. "He has been charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation," Constable Tony Vella, a police spokesman, said on Monday. The alleged victim was a minor but is now 18 years of age, Const. Vella said.

Reached at the family apartment on Monday, Mr. Khadr said: "Don't worry about it. I'm pretty sure the law is going to do what it's supposed to do."

The arrest is the latest chapter in the saga of the Khadrs, Canadian citizens who once lived in the same compound as Osama bin Laden but fled Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

The family patriarch, Amhed Khadr, crossed into Pakistan, where he was killed in a shootout with Pakistani security forces in 2003. His son Omar is at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, accused of killing a U.S. soldier.

Another son, Abdullah, is in Toronto awaiting extradition to the United States, where he has been charged with smuggling weapons to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, while son Abdurahman has said his father tried to recruit him to become a suicide bomber.
Was Abdurahman the favourite son or the disliked one?
The fifth of six Khadr children, Abdulkareem, who was born in Pakistan, was present when his father was killed near the Afghanistan border. Then 14, Abdulkareem took a bullet to the spine and is paralyzed from the waist down.

He returned to Toronto in 2004 using an emergency passport issued by the Canadian government.

At the time, Stockwell Day, then an opposition MP and now International Trade Minister, said the Khadrs had lost the right to call themselves Canadians. "They've expressed their allegiance to the principles of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden," Mr. Day said. "That alone should be grounds to have their citizenship revoked."
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
The mother denies the family has ties to al-Qaeda. In 2006, Abdulkareem turned up in Brampton to watch bail hearings for the Toronto 18 terror suspects who were charged with plotting truck bomb attacks in southern Ontario.

Two years later, he took part in a protest outside the United States consulate in Toronto to call for the release of his brother Omar. On Monday, Abdulkareem said he was arrested at a police station in suburban Scarborough on June 4. "I went to go see what they were talking about, talk to them and that's it," he said. "They gave me the papers and whatnot and that's it, they let me go."

Mr. Khadr said he was unsure whether he would have to appear in court next month. "I might not need to appear, I might need to appear, it doesn't matter," he said. Asked if he meant the case might be resolved or the charges dropped before that date, he said, "yes."
If she's muslim, then her family will insist on dropping charges. the Khadrs are practically royalty in the islamist world. Still, he's a smug little sh*t, isn't he?
His sister Zaynab said she was unaware of any charges. "He hasn't been charged with anything. If there was any charges believe me I'd know about it," she said on Monday. "I don't know about any of that and believe me, I would have known, I have a minor in the house."
apples. oranges.
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Great White North
Canadian intel agent defends Harkat 'sleeper' call
2010-01-24
A senior CSIS agent denied a suggestion Friday that the spy agency was “coming up short' with its claims that Mohamed Harkat is an al-Qaida sleeper agent.

In his fifth day of cross-examination at the Ottawa man's security certificate hearing in Federal Court, the CSIS agent — identified only as “John' — defended the spy service's conclusion identifying the one-time pizza deliveryman as a sleeper agent ready to do the bidding of an Islamic extremist network.

While “John' told defence lawyer Matt Webber that CSIS hasn't pinpointed what specific organization Harkat allegedly answers to, Harkat's use of an alias, a fake passport and other intelligence points to his role as a sleeper agent. “Ultimately, it's a judgment call and the service concluded he was a sleeper,' said “John.'

Harkat's denial that he used the alias Abu Muslim — one he later owned up to when testifying in 2004 — was another “significant factor' in CSIS identifying Harkat as a sleeper agent. “I believe he would have feared us connecting him back to being a member of the Bin Laden Network,' said “John.'

However, Webber attacked CSIS claims that Harkat tried to “lay low' following his arrival to Canada in 1995. Webber pointed to several contacts Harkat had with Ottawa police, including a gas station robbery where he worked, an assault during a pizza delivery and three other thefts in the late 1990s and 2001.

Harkat also visited Abu Messab Al Shehre, an Islamic extremist later deported to Saudi Arabia, at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre in 1997. Webber noted Harkat's name and actions would be recorded and monitored at the Innes Rd. jail.

“John' testified CSIS has only identified Harkat doing one specific task as a sleeper, with Harkat paying $1,000 for Al Shehre's immigration legal fees at the request of senior al-Qaida lieutenant Abu Zubaydah.

Webber said that as an alleged sleeper agent, Harkat went several years with no action. “In the theory of CSIS, he slept for a long time,' Webber said of the several years of Harkat's apparent inactivity with Islamic extremists after arriving in Canada in 1995, adding tongue-in-cheek that Harkat was “a Rip Van Winkle terrorist' in the spy agency's view.

Earlier in the day, “John' acknowledged he “muddled up' a timeline in previous testimony that put Harkat on a Toronto-bound road trip with high-profile Canadian al-Qaida operative Ahmed Said Khadr. “It's not that I didn't know the details. I simply muddled it when I was testifying on the stand,' said the agent about incorrectly testifying in November 2008 that Khadr had already been arrested on terrorism charges when he took the van trip with Harkat.

“John' said his error occurred to him a few days after his testimony but he didn't inform lawyers representing the federal immigration ministry, which is seeking Harkat's deportation to his native Algeria. “It didn't occur to me that anything else was required,' “John' told Webber of correcting his testimony.
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Great White North
Judge says secret evidence links Canadian suspect to al-Qaida
2010-01-23
The judge overseeing the Mohamed Harkat terrorism case said the Ottawa man knew Ahmed Said Khadr and was responsible for “specific tasks' for the high-profile Canadian al-Qaida associate. Judge Simon Noel's statement came during cross-examination of a CSIS agent about the spy agency's case against Harkat, an alleged al-Qaida sleeper agent.

Harkat's lawyers — who don't have the top-secret classified information CSIS amassed about their client — said Harkat and Khadr both worked for different Islamic charity groups in Pakistan in the early 1990s. However, the Federal Court judge in Harkat's security certificate case — who has overseen closed-door hearings on the confidential CSIS information — said Thursday there's evidence from the secret hearings that links Harkat “doing specific tasks' for Khadr and his charity, Human Concern International.

“If I could say more...but there's a limit,' said Noel of the information that can't be made public due to national security concerns. Noel said it's now up to Harkat “if he decides to respond to it.'

“He knew him well enough to be trusted by Mr. Khadr to assume specific tasks,' Noel said of Harkat's connection to Khadr before his arrival in Canada in 1995. Harkat, 41, has denied meeting Khadr before coming to Canada.

During a fourth day of cross-examination of a senior CSIS agent, Harkat's lawyers continued to try to chip away at the spy agency's case against the one-time Ottawa pizza deliveryman. They spent most of Thursday going through allegations found in the public summary of the CSIS report on Harkat, zeroing in on the spy agency's claims that Harkat “indicated his loyalties' with the Groupe islamique arme (GIA), an Algerian terrorist group responsible for civilian massacres in the 1990s.
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India-Pakistan
US paid bounty to Pakistan to arrest terror suspect
2008-05-14
A United States intelligence agency paid a bounty of $500,000 to Pakistan’s military for the arrest of the Canadian son of a suspected Al Qaeda financier, according to reports, quoting court documents, published in the Canadian press.

Papers filed in a Canadian court say that Abdullah Khadr was wanted by the Americans for “supporting insurgent activity in Pakistan and Afghanistan”, since he was “deemed to be a national security threat.” The Globe and Mail newspaper from Toronto, which obtained the information after fighting to be able to publish it, said Khadr is the eldest son of Egyptian-born Canadian national Ahmed Said Khadr, and the brother of Omar Khadr, the only Canadian held at Guantanamo. Abdullah was held in Pakistan for almost a year before returning in 2005 to Canada, where he was arrested and jailed, and is now fighting extradition to the US.

Justice officials inadvertently disclosed the top secret memo in court filings last year and fought the Globe and Mail not to publish it, but lost.
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Fifth Column
Massive Terrorist Plot! NYT: See Page 30
2007-06-04
By Ben Johnson

This weekend, federal authorities foiled a stunning terrorist plot by Muslim extremists to kill thousands of our readers, strike the international transport grid, and depress the nation’s economy during its slowest quarter since late 2002 – but enough about that.

That was the message of Sunday’s New York Times.

The FBI had prevented four men, including a former member of Guyana’s parliament, from blowing up John F. Kennedy International Airport – and possibly part of Queens. They hoped to ignite underground fuel pipes, setting off a chain reaction of explosions that would envelop the entire complex. The NY Post and New York Daily News made it front page news. The NY Daily News headlined its story, “They Aimed to Kill Thousands.” The Post included a chilling sidebar, “Pipeline Security A Joke.”

The (inexplicably) most prestigious newspaper in the world put its bland story on page 30. Instead, page one featured yet another story about Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Any junior editor at any county newspaper in the country would have been fired for putting the most reported story in the nation two-and-a-half dozen pages into the well. Aside from burying a major international story that took place in its metro area, the Newspaper of Record took pains to make the Muslim battle plan that could have atomized a portion of its immediate readership appear utterly irrelevant.

The NYT began by obscuring the terrorists’ target. Although it faults the U.S. military for using the term “collateral damage,” the Times wrote as though the plotters only planned to blow up inanimate objects, certainly not human beings. Its opening line read, “Four men, including a onetime airport cargo handler and a former member of the Parliament of Guyana, were charged yesterday with plotting to blow up fuel tanks, terminal buildings and the web of fuel lines running beneath Kennedy International Airport.”

Secondly, it minimized the severity of the plot. JFK “was never in imminent danger because the plot was only in a preliminary phase and the conspirators had yet to lay out detailed plans or obtain financing or explosives.” Besides, “safety shut-off valves would almost assuredly have prevented an exploding airport fuel tank from igniting all or even part of the network.” Move along. Nothing to see here!

And, as they have for the last several plots (Ft. Dix, Miami, etc.), the Old Gray Lady portrayed the would-be mass killers as pathetic and sympathetic. Plot originator Russell Defreitas, 63, was “divorced and lost touch with his two children.” Once homeless, he moved into an apartment where “the weather was rough on his health and the cold was tough on his arthritis.” He now lives on “a run-down block full of graffiti.” He liked jazz, “especially the saxophone.” Friends described him as a “polite man” and “not that bright” – not bright enough to pull off a serious attack.

Much deeper into the story the crack staff fesses up: “Defreitas envisioned ‘the destruction of the whole of Kennedy” and theorized that because of underground pipes, ‘part of Queens would explode.’” He told his co-conspirators he wanted to inflict such massive loss of life that “even the twin towers can’t touch it.” Beyond crippling the U.S. economy (during a downturn), the move would have symbolic value, as well. Americans “love John F. Kennedy,” he said. “If you hit that, this whole country will be in mourning. It’s like you kill the man twice.” Apparently murdering the president’s brother once was not enough for Muslim extremists.

Later still, the Times notes that, while they weren’t al-Qaeda operatives, the four sought help from “extremist Muslim group based in Trinidad and Tobago called Jamaat al-Muslimeen.” They had “precise and extensive” surveillance of their target, which serves 1,000 flights a day. The quartet “was very familiar with the airport and how to access secure areas.” The plotters were motivated by “fundamentalist Islamic beliefs of a violent nature.” (Coincidentally, every terrorist who has killed Americans since the late Clinton administration has also shared “fundamentalist Islamic beliefs of a violent nature.” In fact, “Mr. Kadir, who, along with being a former elected official [in Guyana], is an imam.”) An unnamed law enforcement official told reporters they stopped the plot early for a reason: “if we let it go it could have gotten [serious]; they could have gotten the J.A.M. fully involved, and we wouldn’t know where it could have gone.”

Oh, and one of the plotters is still at large. Perhaps getting “J.A.M. fully involved” now. “The fourth suspect, Abdel Nur, 57, remained a fugitive.”

Too busy to concentrate on news that doesn’t fit, the Times featured another front page story in which the terrorist is portrayed as a victim, this one set in Gitmo. The story begins:

The facts of Omar Ahmed Khadr’s case are grim. The shrapnel from the grenade he is accused of throwing ripped through the skull of Sgt. First Class Christopher J. Speer, who was 28 when he died.

To American military prosecutors, Mr. Khadr is a committed Al Qaeda operative, spy and killer who must be held accountable for killing Sergeant Speer in 2002 and for other bloody acts he committed in Afghanistan.

But there is one fact that may not fit easily into the government’s portrait of Mr. Khadr: He was 15 at the time.


Not only a mere teen, Khadr is:

the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay, nearly blind in one eye from injuries sustained during the July 2002 firefight in which Sergeant Speer was mortally wounded and another American soldier was severely injured. Last week, Mr. Khadr said he wanted to fire all of his American lawyers, and some of them said they understood why he might distrust Americans after five years at Guantanamo. (Emphasis added.)


His lawyer, Muneer I. Ahmad is – surprise! – an associate professor at the American University Washington College of Law. Saith Ahmad, “If Omar had had his free choice, what he would have chosen to do is ride horses, play soccer and read Harry Potter books.”

Another innocent betrayed by Bush’s War on Terror! Just like Hillary Clinton.

Only in the 17th and 18th paragraphs of the story do we learn Omar’s father, Ahmed Said Khadr, was a “senior deputy to Osama bin Laden,” and one of his brothers told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “We are an al-Qaeda family.”

Moreover, the story grudgingly acknowledges international law does not forbid the United States from doing precisely what it is with Omar. Not only is this a non-story, it is an old non-story. FrontPage Magazine covered The Littlest Jihadist as early as 2002 and has run numerous stories about this extremist family, with its extensive ties to the 9/11 plotters. But to the Times, his alleged suffering trumps the suffering of its own readers.

In addition to this meager coverage of a legitimate threat, the NYT editorial page had not a single editorial on the threat to its readers’ hometown, although Sunday’s issue had three editorials targeting President Bush, Dick Cheney, and the “harsh” jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas.

The decisions to put a story portraying the plight of Guantanamo Bay’s beleaguered terrorist population on page one and to ignore the JFK plot in its editorial coverage were transparently political moves. While Muslim extremists wage a hot war against the United States – often centered in one of the bluest cities of the nation – the Left sees its war on President Bush as infinitely more important. Why do anything that would put the spotlight on terrorism, vindicate the present administration, or – worse yet – perhaps elect a Republican in 2008? The NYT would not take that chance, and it had no difficulty altering its news coverage to fit that political template.

Ultimately, said Mark J. Mershon, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York office, the JFK plotters based their actions on “a pattern of hatred toward the United States and the West in general.” One suspects the same could be said of the New York Times.
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Great White North
'I only buy and sell weapons for al-Qaeda'
2006-11-04
Asked by the Mounties if he were part of al-Qaeda, Abdullah Khadr responded, "No, I only buy and sell weapons for al-Qaeda." Over the course of five interviews with the RCMP last year, the 25-year-old terrorism suspect admitted that he "knows everybody" in al-Qaeda and ran guns for the organization to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
But he also insisted that if any terrorist "had anything planned for Canada, I'd be the first one to stop it."
But he also insisted that if any terrorist "had anything planned for Canada, I'd be the first one to stop it."

The Crown this week released two volumes of interviews Mr. Khadr gave to the RCMP between the time he was detained in Pakistan in 2005 and was released to Canada last year. Days after he landed in Toronto, the U.S. government had him arrested and launched an extradition case against him.

Mr. Khadr, a Canadian citizen who grew up in Afghanistan, seems to have been forthcoming during long questioning sessions with police. His lawyers suggest, however, all of the testimony could be tainted by torture he said he suffered in Pakistan.

Mr. Khadr's statements give new insights into al-Qaeda and figures who have long been of interest to investigators, primarily himself and his family. "We are one of the most famous families in Afghanistan," he proudly told his interviewers.

Abdullah Khadr: The young man told the RCMP how
His father enlisted him in an Afghan training camp when he was just 14. He learned how to fire weapons and explode bombs.
his father enlisted him in an Afghan training camp when he was just 14. He learned how to fire weapons and explode bombs. Mr. Khadr said he began procuring weapons for al-Qaeda after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. He said he bought guns and missile launchers and had a role in using a global-positioning-system unit to map co-ordinates for fighters who were later arrested for trying to kill Pakistan's Prime Minister in a missile attack. But he said he was an arms supplier, not a fighter. "I never, like, entered a battlefield."

His late father, Ahmed Said Khadr: Abdullah Khadr said his father was a proud man who founded Canadian Muslim student unions, went to Afghanistan to help orphans and became a long-time intimate of Osama bin Laden.
Following the 2001 U.S. invasion, the al-Qaeda leadership put the family patriarch in charge of a group of Arab resistance fighters in Logar region of Afghanistan.
Following the 2001 U.S. invasion, the al-Qaeda leadership put the family patriarch in charge of a group of Arab resistance fighters in Logar region of Afghanistan, Abdullah Khadr said. The Pakistani army killed Ahmed Said Khadr in 2003. "My father knows everybody in the [al-Qaeda] Top 10," he said at one point. But he insisted no funds from his father's charity work ever made their way to al-Qaeda.

Abdullah said his brother was never supposed to have been a fighter. He just disappeared one day after his father sent him toward the front lines.
His younger brother Omar: The teenager has been held in Guantanamo Bay since U.S. forces shot him in a 2002 battle in Afghanistan, during which Omar lobbed a grenade that killed a soldier. Abdullah said his brother was never supposed to have been a fighter. He just disappeared one day after his father sent him toward the front lines. "My father said Omar is translating."

His sister Zaynab: The Mounties have suggested they recovered al-Qaeda propaganda videos from her computer hard drive, but Abdullah insisted his sister is no terrorist. She's "patriotic," he said. "But I doubt she can do anything other than talk."

Osama bin Laden: The al-Qaeda leader told the Khadr family to "be happy, something is coming" prior to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Abdullah said.

Amer El-Maati: This Canadian citizen, sought by the FBI as a terrorist, worked as a carpet salesmen after al-Qaeda refused to give him a pension, according to Abdullah. He said he last saw the man fighting in Afghanistan-Pakistan border regions in 2001. "But he can't do much due to a brain injury," Abdullah Khadr said. "He was in a car accident in 1992. He cannot walk for long hours." Amer El-Maati's brother, Ahmed, a truck driver jailed in the Middle East after being followed by the RCMP, is suing Ottawa for being complicit in his overseas torture.

The Hindy family: The RCMP questioned Abdullah Khadr about Aly Hindy, a controversial Toronto imam and long-time Khadr family friend. Abdullah Khadr recalled a late-1990s visit that the imam's son Ibrahim made to Afghanistan. "He came, he stayed one month in the Musab al-Surri camp, maybe one week less than a month." He said the teenager learned about weapons, including firing Kalshnikovs.

Mahmoud Jaballah: Abdullah Khadr said he knew him as "Abu Ahmed," and as an "Arabic tutor in Peshawar for one week. But to my knowledge he never fought on the front line."
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Great White North
Jaballah sez he only met with Khadr for tea
2006-05-20
An Egyptian who has twice been jailed under Canada's controversial security-certificate process, repeated in Federal Court yesterday that he is not a terrorist and that his only conversation with a senior al-Qaeda operative was over a cup of tea.

Mahmoud Jaballah, a biology teacher and father of six, is undergoing another hearing on the reasonableness of a security certificate -- signed by two federal government ministers -- that has resulted in his imprisonment since August, 2001.

Mr. Jaballah was first arrested in the mid-1990s, but later released when a Federal Court judge quashed the certificate. Yesterday, he acknowledged that he had met an associate of Osama bin Laden, Ahmed Said Khadr who was killed in Afghanistan by Pakistani forces in 2001, but said it was an innocent meeting. Mr. Jaballah said that Mr. Khadr's in-laws helped his wife buy groceries when Mr. Jaballah and his family first came to Toronto as refugees and that he and Mr. Khadr drank tea together. He also testified that he had seen Mr. Khadr at his mosque.

Mr. Jaballah's lawyer, John Norris, also probed his client about an Interpol alert that suggested he was part of a terrorist organization called Egyptian Al-Jihad. "The Egyptian government tends to exaggerate things . . . ," he said.

Mr. Jaballah testified that Egyptian authorities had once arrested -- and later released him -- on inaccurate evidence that he was plotting to kill the country's minister of the interior.

He also denied allegations from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service that he fought and trained in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Yemen. He said that in the early 1990s he travelled to Pakistan to work as a school teacher.
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Great White North
Jaballah denies receiving terrorist training
2006-05-19
An Egyptian terror suspect testifying in Federal Court on Thursday refuted claims by Canada’s spy agency that he trained and fought as a terrorist.

A CSIS summary of evidence says Mahmoud Jaballah’s alleged travel pattern in the early 1990s was consistent with those of an Islamic mujahedeen extremist, and accuses him of fighting alongside terrorists in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

However, Jaballah denied having ever been to either country, and testified he was working as a teacher in Pakistan during the time in question. He also disputed CSIS claims that he had trained as a terrorist in Yemen, saying he was in the country to apply for a teaching job.

CSIS also says Jaballah had an operational relationship with Egyptian-born Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr, a suspected Al Qaeda operative killed by Pakistani forces in 2003, before Jaballah moved to Canada. The spy agency claims Jaballah spent time at Khadr’s Pakistani residence while in the country on business.

Jaballah admitted he had met Khadr in Canada, but denied CSIS’s claims about their relationship. He said he would shake hands with Khadr and say hello when the two crossed paths in a Toronto mosque, but insisted they were not friends.

“I never stayed with him, I never discussed anything with him,” Jaballah said. “He was like anyone else in the mosque.”

Jaballah has been detained since August 2001 on a national security certificate, which allows Ottawa to indefinitely hold foreign nationals who are determined to be security threats.

CSIS has provided only summaries of evidence to the defence, and will not identify specific sources. But Jaballah said on the stand he is “100 per cent” certain the accusations and alleged travel itineraries came from the Egyptian government.

Egyptian authorities have accused Jaballah of being a high-ranking member of an Egyptian-based terror group, al-Jihad, which is said to provide terrorists with logistics, weapons and escape plans.

In court Thursday, Jaballah denied any involvement with terrorist organizations.

“I applied for refugee status because of the persecution I experienced in Egypt,” he said. “That’s the main reason I wanted to live like any other human being in Canada.”

Jaballah was testifying after a judge agreed earlier Thursday to place limits on the future use of his testimony.

His lawyers had asked Judge Andrew MacKay to grant Jaballah protection against his testimony being used against him should he face another security certificate charge.

MacKay’s order would limit the use or derivative use of Jaballah’s testimony to this current case and any proceedings arising directly from it, such as a claim for appeal or charges of perjury or contempt.

“Though there is no statutory compulsion to testify, the circumstances compel him to testify if he is to have any chance of remaining in Canada,” MacKay said.

The defence has also argued that greater disclosure of the evidence is necessary for Jaballah to properly argue his case.

“How can you answer a case when you’ve not been given a case?” said defence lawyer Barbara Jackman, who likened the process behind the security certificate hearings to “walking in the dark.”

MacKay reminded the defence of the court’s obligation to not release information that could be damaging to national security, but said he will meet with government lawyers in Ottawa next week to see if more evidence against Jaballah can be made public.
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Home Front: WoT
Canadian on trial at Guantanamo boycotts tribunal
2006-04-06
GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A Canadian teenager charged with killing a US Army medic in Afghanistan told a Guantanamo tribunal on Wednesday he had been unfairly punished with solitary confinement and would no longer participate in the hearing. Omar Khadr, a 19-year-old accused by the US military of being trained by al Qaeda, addressed the presiding officer softly at his pretrial hearing at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Omar, of the world famous Kanadian Khadr Killer Klan
“I say with my respect to you and everybody else here that I am boycotting these procedures until I (am) treated humanely and fair,” the Toronto native said. One of his military lawyers, Lt. Col. Colby Vokey, said Khadr had been moved to solitary confinement “for no reason” on March 30, making it difficult to prepare a defense. Vokey shouted and slapped the table during a heated exchange with presiding officer, Marine Col. Robert Chester, who recessed the hearing and asked to see Vokey in private.
"Vokey, I think you've been watching too many episodes of Boston Legal. Straighten up, or you'll be defending penguins on Ice Station Zebra."
The hearing resumed later under protest from defense attorneys. They said it was unethical for them to continue against their client’s will. Chester said he would take up the issue later in the week.

Khadr is charged with conspiring to commit war crimes and with murdering US Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer with a grenade during a firefight at a suspected al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in 2002. A spokesman for the prison camp said in a written statement that neither Khadr nor any other Guantanamo detainees were held in solitary confinement. He said Khadr had been moved from a medium-security camp, where prisoners live in groups, to a maximum-security building where they live in individual cells but can still communicate with one another.
He's got a private room and he's bitchin' about it?
The spokesman, Cmdr. Robert Durand, said the move was routine for those in pretrial status and “largely for the protection of the detainee.”

The testy exchange came during a daylong hearing where defense attorneys complained repeatedly about rules they said were unclear, unfair and not based on any legal framework. It began when Vokey questioned who had authority to grant Khadr’s request for a Canadian lawyer to join the defense team. Chester said he would decide if he had that authority once Vokey made the request in writing. “There’s no precedent here,” Vokey fumed. “I don’t know what rule to look to. I don’t know what law to look to.”
That's the whole *point*, Vokey. These scumbags have the entire Western system of jurisprudence tied up in knots and chasing its own tail while the Sons of Allan continue their plottings and slaughter in the name of all that's *holy*.
The US military says Khadr’s father, Ahmed Said Khadr, an al Qaeda financier and close friend of Osama bin Laden, moved his family between Canada, Pakistan and Afghanistan and sent his son to al Qaeda training camps to learn how to use guns, grenades and explosives. The elder Khadr was killed in a shootout with Pakistani security forces in 2003. Khadr was 15 when he was captured. His lawyers believe that trying him for crimes allegedly committed as a juvenile violates international law. Khadr would face life in prison if convicted.
Plus, he's half a orphan, so show some mercy already...
Ten of the 490 Guantanamo detainees have been charged with war crimes. Khadr is one of four scheduled for pretrial hearings this week. The Supreme Court heard a challenge to the legitimacy of the tribunals last month and is expected to rule by July.
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Great White North
Canada agrees to Qaeda suspect extradition hearing
2006-03-16
TORONTO (Reuters) - The Ontario Superior Court agreed on Thursday to hold an extradition hearing for a Canadian man who is wanted in the United States on charges of buying weapons for al Qaeda and conspiring to kill Americans abroad.
The court will set a date for the hearing on March 30. "The Attorney General of Canada commenced the extradition process of Abdullah Khadr," federal prosecutor Howard Piafsky told reporters outside the courtroom. "We will be seeking his extradition."

Abdullah Khadr, 24, faces charges in the United States of conspiracy to murder Americans abroad and of buying weapons for groups linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. He could face a life sentence and a $1 million fine if convicted.

Khadr, who was arrested in Toronto in December two weeks after returning to Canada from Pakistan, is the eldest son of the late Ahmed Said Khadr, an alleged al Qaeda financier and close friend of bin Laden. His brother Omar Ahmed Khadr is the only Canadian held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States formally requested Khadr's extradition in February.

Khadr has said he was tortured in a Pakistani prison where he was detained without charges from October 2004. His teenage brother Omar has been a prisoner at Guantanamo since 2002 and will face a trial by a U.S. military tribunal for murder. Another brother, Abdurahman Khadr, was also a prisoner at Guantanamo, but was freed.
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Great White North
US requests Khadr extradition
2006-02-16
The United States has formally requested the extradition of a Canadian man accused of supplying weapons to al Qaeda, but the process could take years, officials said on Wednesday. U.S. authorities say Abdullah Khadr, 24, also conspired to kill Americans abroad. Khadr was arrested in Toronto in December two weeks after returning to Canada from Pakistan.

Khadr is the eldest son of Ahmed Said Khadr, who was an alleged al Qaeda financier and close friend of Osama bin Laden. He was killed in a 2003 gun battle in Pakistan. Brother Omar Ahmed Khadr is the only Canadian held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Canada's Justice Department now has 30 days to approve the U.S. request and if it says yes, a court hearing will be held to consider the extradition. Khadr can appeal that decision all the way to the Supreme Court, and it could be a long time before a final ruling is made. "We have (extradition) cases that have been around for five years," said a Justice Department spokesman.

Khadr said he was tortured in a Pakistani prison where he was detained without charges in October 2004.
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Great White North
Abdullah Khadr charged
2006-02-09
A federal grand jury in the United States formally charged a Canadian citizen on Wednesday with conspiracy to murder Americans outside the country and of buying weapons for groups linked to al Qaeda.

Abdullah Khadr, who is being held in Canada on an extradition warrant from the United States, was charged with four counts involving procurement of weapons for al Qaeda and could face a life sentence.

The 24-year-old is the eldest son of Ahmed Said Khadr, an alleged al Qaeda financier and close friend of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. His brother Omar Ahmed Khadr is the only Canadian held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Michael Sullivan, the U.S. attorney in Boston where Khadr was charged, said in a statement he wants to extradite the Canadian to stand trial in the United States, where he could also face a $1 million fine if convicted.

"The indictment of Abdullah Khadr demonstrates the commitment of the United States to aggressively investigate and prosecute those who seek to kill Americans here or abroad," Sullivan said.

The indictment accuses Khadr of assisting his late father, Egyptian-born Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr, of supplying rockets, grenades, mines and other weapons to al Qaeda in 2003 for attacks against U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

The son was arrested on December 17 in Canada after he returned from Pakistan, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston said.

Khadr has said he was tortured in a Pakistani prison where he was detained without charges from October 2004. His teenage brother Omar has been a prisoner at Guantanamo since 2002 and will face a trial by a U.S. military tribunal for murder.

Another brother, Abdurahman Khadr, was also a prisoner at Guantanamo, but was freed. He told Canadian media he had been asked to work for the CIA.
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