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Security forces neutralise two terrorists in North Waziristan IBO
2024-01-13
[GEO.TV] As the country battles the scourge of terrorism, security forces Friday bumped off two bandidos snuffies in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in North Wazoo, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.

As per the military’s media wing, the IBO — conducted on reports of terrorists’ presence — resulted in an intense exchange of fire.

During the conduct of the operation, two bandidos snuffies identified as Abdullah Khadri and Khalid alias "Janan" were sent to hell, the statement added.

The ISPR underscored that the bumped off bandidos snuffies remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area including murder of innocent civilians.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
 security forces are carrying out a sanitisation operation to eliminate any other bandidos snuffies found in the area.

"[...] the security forces of Pakistain are determined to wipe out the menace of terrorism from the country", the military’s media wing noted.

The IBO comes days after two soldiers embraced martyrdom during a shootout with bandidos snuffies in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Lakki Marwat district.

The deaders included Sepoy Muhammad Afzal, 29, resident of district Bhimber, Azad Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, and Sepoy Ibrar Hussain, 27, resident of district Mansehra
...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
Pakistain has witnessed an alarming surge in terror-related incidents since the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
-led administration took over Afghanistan in 2021.

The year 2023 saw as many as 586 terror attacks with 17% claimed by banned terror outfits such as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
 Liberation Army (BLA), ISIS, and others.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
 security forces conducted 197 operations against outlaws leaving 537-545 of them dead.

As per the Annual Security Report released by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), the country witnessed 1,524 deaths and 1,463 injuries in the previous year.

Related:
Wazoo: 2024-01-11 3 cops among 4 dead in late-night attack on police checkpost in Kohat
Wazoo: 2024-01-11 Independent candidate shot dead in North Waziristan
Wazoo: 2024-01-09 Soldier martyred in shootout with terrorists in North Waziristan: ISPR
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Great White North
Canada high court blocks Khadr extradition to US
2011-11-04
OTTAWA: The Supreme Court of Canada blocked on Thursday the extradition to the United States of Abdullah Khadr, a Canadian wanted by Washington on terrorist charges. Khadr, 30, who told CBC television before being detained in Islamabad in 2004 that every Muslim dreams of being a martyr for Islam, is accused by Washington of supplying missiles to Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and conspiring to murder Americans abroad. His brother Omar is in prison at Guantanamo where he belongs.

The Supreme Court refused on Thursday to hear an appeal — launched on behalf of the United States — of lower court decisions that had stopped proceedings for his extradition. That brings the United States to the end of the legal road in Canada.

The high court did not give a reason for its decision. But the Ontario court that first quashed his extradition had ruled that Khadr’s human rights, including access to Canadian diplomatic counsel, had been unjustifiably violated after his arrest by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate.

The United States supposedly paid $500,000 to the Pakistanis to abduct him in Pakistan in October 2004. For 14 months he was held secretly in that country, where he alleges he was tortured.

According to documents before the Supreme Court, after the Pakistanis had exhausted Khadr as a source of anti-terrorism intelligence, they were ready to free him. But Washington insisted they hold him for another six months, while it held an investigation and started the extradition process. He was allowed to return in December 2005 to Canada, where he was soon arrested at the request of the United States.

The Canadian government was the actual party that appealed the lower court decisions to the top court, acting on behalf of the United States.

The Khadr family had close ties to Osama Bin Laden, living at his compound in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Abdullah’s father, Ahmed, was arrested in Pakistan in 1995 in connection with a bomb at the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, then freed at Canada’s request. He was killed in a gun battle in Pakistan in 2003.
Seems like the whole family is rotten...
Abdullah’s brother, Omar, pleaded guilty in October 2010 to a series of charges, including an admission under a plea deal that he was an Al-Qaeda conspirator who murdered a US soldier. Under a deal agreed at his sentencing, he is eligible to be sent home to Canada at some point to serve his sentence.
Perhaps in 2049...
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Great White North
Canadian Judges Let al-Qaeda Go On Grounds That The US Is Mean To al-Qaeda
2011-05-07
A Toronto judge was justified in freeing an alleged Al Qaeda collaborator given the gravity of human rights abuses committed by the United States in connection with his capture in Pakistan, the Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled.

Judges are not expected to remain passive when countries such as the U.S. violate the rights of alleged terrorists, the court said Friday.

Its 3-0 ruling upholds a decision last August by Justice Christopher Speyer of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice to stay extradition proceedings involving Abdullah Khadr, 30, who is wanted in Boston on charges of procuring munitions for use by Al Qaeda against U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

The Toronto man is the older brother of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr and son of Ahmed Khadr, who was suspected of having close ties with Osama bin Laden and killed in a shootout with Pakistan’s security forces on the Afghanistan border in 2003.

“We must adhere to our democratic and legal values, even if that adherence serves in the short term to benefit those who oppose and seek to destroy those values,” said Justice Robert Sharpe, writing on behalf of Justices John Laskin and Eleanore Cronk.

“For if we do not, in the longer term, the enemies of democracy and the rule of law will have succeeded,” he said. “They will have demonstrated that our faith in our legal order is unable to withstand their threats.”
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Canadian accused of buying weapons for al-Qaeda freed
2010-08-06
A Canadian accused by the US of supplying weapons to al-Qaeda has been sprung in Toronto after a judge refused to extradite him to the US.

Abdullah Khadr, 29, had been in jug since 2005, when he was arrested in Canada at US officials' request.

Mr Khadr is the elder brother of Omar Baby Face Khadr, the only Westerner held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The judge said statements made by Mr Khadr and used as the basis for the case against him were "unreliable".

Mr Khadr was arrested in Pakistan in October 2004 after the CIA offered Pakistani authorities a $500,000 (£314,000) bounty. The US accused him of procuring weapons, including mine components and rocket-propelled grenades, for al-Qaeda to use against coalition forces in Afghanistan.

He returned to Canada after about a year in Pakistani custody, and in December 2005 was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at US request. The US sought to extradite him to face charges. On Wednesday, Superior Court Judge Christopher Speyer halted extradition proceedings, effectively denying the US bid.
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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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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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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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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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Khadr kiddie called a flight risk
2005-12-24
A Canadian terror suspect alleged to have fuelled al-Qaeda with weapons -- and who has admittedly rubbed shoulders with Osama bin Laden -- was denied bail by an Ontario judge yesterday because he poses a flight risk.

"[Abdullah Khadr] has high-level links to al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization without scruples," said Madam Justice Anne Molloy of Ontario Superior Court. "That organization could well assist him in escaping this jurisdiction."

She said the 24-year-old, who has spoken publicly about his hope to die for Islam, "is not a person I would trust to abide by any restriction I would impose upon his release."

Mr. Khadr, who faces extradition to the United States on charges of conspiracy to murder Americans abroad and possession of a destructive device, stared straight ahead as the judge read her ruling. In the court, his younger brother nervously bit his finger, and his grandmother wiped her eyes.

Mr. Khadr will remain in custody until his extradition hearing early next year and is scheduled to appear for a brief remand hearing on Jan. 10.

Crown prosecutor Robin Parker said outside the courtroom that she opposed Mr. Khadr's release on all three grounds on which someone can be refused bail: the risk of flight, the chance of committing further offences while on bail, and that their "detention is necessary to maintain confidence in the proper administration of justice."

"The allegations [against Mr. Khadr] are extraordinary. It's a rare day in Canada when we see these kinds of allegations being talked about in our courtrooms," she said. "It's a very serious case."

Mr. Khadr's defence lawyer said his client, the eldest son of a top al-Qaeda financier, "is obviously disappointed, but it's the early stages and we'll be moving on."

Dennis Edney added that he will consider appealing the bail decision. "There are many steps to take so that we can show that Mr. Khadr will get full justice -- and he will in Canada. We have a tradition of justice."

An affidavit filed to the court by FBI special agent Gregory Hughes alleges that Mr. Khadr admitted buying $20,000 worth of bullets, grenades and explosive materials for al-Qaeda to use against Americans and coalition forces in Afghanistan in 2003, and admitted taking part in a plan to assassinate Pakistan's prime minister.

But in Mr. Edney's final submissions, he argued Mr. Khadr did not pose a flight risk because his family lives in Scarborough and "he has simply nowhere else to go."

Ms. Parker also brought up a letter signed by United States Attorney Michael Sullivan that stated Mr. Khadr had bought a fake Pakistani passport for 30,000 rupees ($585) that he believed his sister was holding for him in Canada.
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Judge denies bail to Abdullah Khadr
2005-12-24
TORONTO -- A Canadian wanted by the United States for allegedly plotting to kill Americans abroad was denied bail Friday by a judge who said he posed a flight risk. Abdullah Khadr, 24, who is being held in Canada on an extradition warrant, could flee with the help of the al-Qaida terrorist network, said Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy. ''That organization could well assist him in escaping this jurisdiction,'' Molloy said. ''This is not a person I would trust to abide by any restriction I would impose upon his release.''
Uncommon outbreak of common sense up north.
Crown prosecutor Robin Parker said Khadr will remain in Canadian custody pending his extradition hearing. ''This is an extraordinary case,'' said Parker. ''The allegations are very serious.'' He'll be back in court Jan. 10 for a brief hearing. Khadr's lawyers said after bail was denied that they were satisfied he had been given a fair hearing.
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For those who missed it - the Khadr kiddy's confession
2005-12-20
A Canadian terror suspect confessed to buying guns and rocket launchers for Al Qaeda to use against U.S. forces in Afghanistan, according to a court filing Monday.

In an court affidavit in Toronto, where Abdullah Khadr appeared at a preliminary hearing, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corp. Richard Jenkins wrote that Khadr admitted ties to senior Al Qaeda members and confessed to buying guns and rocket launchers for them in Afghanistan. Khadr also admitted to a role in an unspecified plot to assassinate Pakistan's prime minister.

According to the affidavit, it is alleged that his father and some of his brothers had fought for al-Qaida and even stayed with the terror network's leader, Usama bin Laden.

Khadr, 24, who entered no plea at the hearing, faces extradition to the United States on charges of possessing, and conspiracy to possess, a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Boston, where the charges were filed. He faces a maximum of life in prison if convicted.

He is alleged to have bought AK-47 and mortar rounds, rocket-propelled grenades and containers of mine components for Al Qaeda. The weapons purchases were made at the request of his father, Ahmed Said Khadr, an Egyptian-born Canadian who was killed in 2003 when a Pakistani helicopter fired on a house where he was staying with senior Al Qaeda operatives, authorities said.

The affidavit said he received military training at a camp in Afghanistan for four months in the mid-1990s and that he continued buying arms beyond 2003 after his father died. Pakistani intelligence officers picked him up in a car in Islamabad on Oct. 12, 2004, and he was returned to Canada earlier this month.

On Sunday, defense lawyer Dennis Edney accused the U.S. of participating in the unspecified "abuse" of Abdullah Khadr in a Pakistani prison.

The affidavit said Abdullah Khadr claimed that he was tortured by Pakistani authorities shortly after his detention. American authorities have said they did not play a role in any alleged mistreatment of Abdullah Khadr while he was imprisoned.

All four of Khadr's brothers have been detained at various times and linked to terrorism.

One brother, 19-year-old Omar Khadr, is the only Canadian detainee at the U.S. camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay. He faces trial on charges of murder and attempted murder for allegedly throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. army medic.

Outside court, a younger brother, Abduraham, expressed frustration that U.S. law enforcement officials would not allow his family to live in peace.

"We've been in a war zone, what do you expect?" Abdurahman Khadr said. "We're back now and it seems we're still in a war zone because we're not being able to live peacefully — someone is always in, out, jailed, this, that."

Abdurahman has said he grew up in an "Al Qaeda family" but he swore off the family's radical beliefs and worked as an American agent in Guantanamo Bay.
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