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September 2, 2006

Canada: Member of Muslim Terror Family Has Extradition Hearing

The figure pictured left is Abdullah Khadr, the 25-year old who was arrested from his Toronto home on Saturday December 17. Khadr was wanted on an extradition warrant from the United States, which was described by Khadr's lawyer, Dennis Edney, as pertaining to "possession and use of a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence that is conspiracy to murder a U.S. national outside of the U.S."

The extradition warrant, filed in Massachusetts, accuses Abdullah Khadr of buying $20,000 (US) of mortar rounds, landmines, grenades and AK-47 ammunition, for use by al-Qaeda militants in eastern Afghanistan.

Khadr has consistently denied that he is a terrorist, though his family, as we noted on December 23 is Islamist to the core. Pa Khadr, Egyptian-born Ahmed Siad Khadr, had been in custody in Pakistan since 1995, accused of trying to blow up the Egyptian Embassy there. Pa Khadr was released at the request of former Canadian premier, Jean Chretien, allowing him to continue his activities as an Al Qaeda financier. Pa was blown to bits in Pakistan in 2003, when a house used by al-Qaeda was targeted by a helicopter gunship. A brother of Abdullah, Abdul Karim Khadr, was in the house at the time, and was paralyzed from the waist down. He was brought to Canada in 2004.

Brother Omar Khadr is in custody in Guantanamo, after his arrest in Khost, Afghanistan in July 2002. Omar is charged with murdering a medic with a grenade, and injuring another medic who tried to treat him. Brother Abdurahman Khadr was arrested in November 2001 and also placed in Guantanamo in early 2003, being returned to Canada in October 2003. SIster Zaynab Khadr who is a burka-wearing fanatic, is an associate of those who were arrested on June 2 in southern Ontario. It is alleged that she and Abdullah Khadr ran an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in the 1990s.

Abdullah Khadr, according to CBC News is apparently named in a Taliban statement from February 4, 2004, as an individual who blew up a Canadian soldier in Kabul in January 2004.

Yesterday, Abdullah Khadr appeared in court in connection with the extradition hearing, states CP News via 1130 Radio, Canoe News, and Canada East.com.

Apparently Khadr appeared relaxed as he chatted with his lawyer. Abdullah Khadr admits that he attended an al Qaeda terror training camp in Afghanistan for two weeks during the 1990s, when he was 13.

A commentary appears in the Toronto Sun by columnist Peter Worthington, entitled "Give this Khadr a break". Worthington argues that Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay was wrong to refuse to issue Khadr's brother Abdurahman a passport recently. In June, 2005, a judge had said that the former Guantanamo detainee should be given his passport.

Worthington believes Abdurahman Khadr's claims that he is the odd one out of the family, in that he rejects Al Qaeda, and suggests that he should be taken at his word. Worthington states: "I'd argue Abdurahman has earned an opportunity to prove himself a worthy citizen. Unless there's something we don't know, MacKay should return and renew his passport."

The columnist argues that the rest of the family should all have their Canadian citizenship revoked. Even Ma Khadr is a virulent opponent of the West. Worthington states: "Abdurahman's mother and sister returned to Canada to get medical treatment for Karim and when interviewed, proclaimed faith in al-Qaida and reviled Canada - the mother even declaring pride if her son became a suicide bomber."

He says the members of the family are "notorious for exploiting Canada and supporting our enemies."

Why Jean Chretien ever argued for Pa Khadr to be released from jail and be allowed to come back to Canada beggars belief.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at September 2, 2006 9:17 PM

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