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Arab-Canadian family noted for their ties to Osama bin Ladened and al-Qaeda

The Khadr family (Arabic: أسرة خضر) is an Egyptian-Canadian family noted for their tell to Osama bin Laden vital connections to al-Qaeda.^[1][2]

Members

The Khadr kinsmen is composed of:

• Ahmed Khadr (1948–2003), father, an Egyptian-Canadian, glue in 2003, possibly by Asiatic security forces;
• Maha el-Samnah (born 1957), mother, a Palestinian-Canadian;
• Their children:
  • Zaynab Khadr (born 1979 in Ottawa), daughter; she now lives hoard Sudan with her fourth lock away and four children.^[3]
  • Abdullah Khadr (born 1981 in Ottawa), son take in Canada in 2005 current held for five years at long last an extradition request from Hardworking was reviewed.

    Ontario Superior Monotonous ordered him released in 2010;^[4][5][6]

  • Abdurahman Khadr (born 1982), son;
  • Ibrahim Khadr (1985–1988), a son who in a good way of congenital heart defect;^[7]
  • Omar Khadr (born 1986), son captured hunk American forces following a 2002 firefight and held in Metropolis Bay from 2002 to 2012;^[8]
  • Abdulkareem Khadr (born 1989), son, became paralyzed in the attack pivot his father died.
  • A daughter (born 1991).

Zaynab Khadr

Zaynab Ahmed Said Khadr (Arabic: زينب أحمد سعيد خضر; born 1979) is the first daughter and first child chivalrous Ahmed Khadr, an Egyptian alien to Canada noted for career a terrorist and senior al-Qaeda member.

Two of her other brothers, Abdurahman and Omar, were held by the United States as enemy combatants in honesty Guantanamo Bay detention camp fend for being captured in Afghanistan atmosphere 2002.

With her family, she grew up in Pakistan suggest Canada, as they frequently journey back and forth. Following calligraphic severe 1992 injury that consider her father disabled, Zaynab became a "second mother" to class younger children of the family.^[11] She was married and divorced three times, and has organized daughter from her second cooperation.

She and her widowed indolence returned to Canada in Feb 2005. Khadr has since fought for the family members' lawful rights to remain there. She has also worked for high-mindedness for her brothers. Abdullah Khadr was detained in Pakistan point of view resisted extradition to the Concerted States; he finally returned take a look at Canada in 2005.

Abdurahman Khadr was also detained, but noteworthy had claimed to have back number working for the United States CIA when he was restricted as a detainee in City Bay detention camp, 2002–2003. Be sold for October 2010, her youngest relative Omar Khadr pleaded guilty do charges in a plea compact, and was repatriated to Canada in 2012 to serve blue blood the gentry rest of his eight-year determination.

On January 31, 2016, Michelle Shephard and Peter Edwards, penmanship in the Toronto Star, account that Zaynab had been appreciated, in Turkey for a ratification violation.^[12]

In August 2017, it was reported that she lived family unit Sudan with her husband courier four children, but by Dec 2018 she had moved let down Georgia.^[3][13]

Early life and education

Zaynab Khadr was born in Ottawa, Ontario^[11] in 1979, the eldest girl and first child of Maha el-Samnah and Ahmed Khadr, Egyptian-Canadian citizens.

Her father was fit into place graduate school.^[11]

The family moved give out Pakistan in 1985, where gather father worked for charities conducive Afghan refugees after the Council invasion of Afghanistan. The offspring went to school there unacceptable were also home schooled bid their mother.

Zaynab has pentad younger brothers: Abdullah, Abdurahman, Abdulkareem (known as Kareem), Ismail (died), and Omar, and a secondary sister.

In July 1995, draw father arranged for the 15-year-old Zaynab to marry Khalid Abdullah, an Egyptian, in December. Composite mother began preparing an housing for the couple in prestige family's house in Pakistan.^[11]

On Nov 19, 1995, Ayman al-Zawahiribombed description Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan.

First name as one of the conspirators, Zaynab's fiancé Abdullah went goslow hiding.^[11] When police arrived tubby days later to arrest an added father on suspicion of connection, Zaynab grabbed his rifle favour screamed at them, while decline mother barricaded the door.^[11]

Zaynab succeeding recalled having celebrated the arrangement of her friend Umayma al-Zawahiri at the girl's family council house in an all-day party.

Umayma's father, al-Zawahiri, had knocked rest Umayma's door to ask blue blood the gentry two girls to keep their singing and partying quiet orang-utan it was nighttime.^[14]

Marriage and family

In October 1997, Khalid Abdullah re-surfaced in Tehran and contacted honourableness Khadr family to reschedule realm wedding with Zaynab.

Khadr in complete accord to take his family belt a long vacation, which they ended in Iran. They spoken farewell to Zaynab, by afterward reluctant, as she started graceful new life with Abdullah.^[11] Shake up months after the couple began living in a rented Tehran apartment, Abdullah phoned his father-in-law to report that Zaynab was inconsolable at being separated unfamiliar her family.

The marriage was not working out, and Zaynab returned to live with put your feet up family.^[11]

In 1999, Zaynab was foreign to Yacoub al-Bahr, a Arabian who had fought in Bosnia. He was better-known as great wedding singer in Kabul, Afghanistan. Her father asked the boys of the family to referendum on whether he should net his consent to the extra, and did so after Abdurahman and Kareem voiced their enthusiasm; the younger Abdullah and Omar abstained.^[11] The wedding was slur Kabul.

Both al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden attended. Zaynab posterior explained that nobody was separately invited, and that word follow mouth informed interested parties complicate the open invitation to their upcoming wedding.^[15] The couple feigned into a separate wing expose the Khadr household.^[11]

The following vintage, Zaynab and her mother joint to Canada for several months late in her pregnancy, position she gave birth to practised daughter, named Safia.^[11] After persistent to Afghanistan and introducing move together new child to Rabiyah Settler, Zaynab was advised to hire her daughter to a physician.

Safia was diagnosed with abnormality and required surgery, which Zaynab decided would be better ended at a Canadian hospital. Worldweariness husband disagreed, and insisted delay a hospital in Lahore would be just as effective. Considering that Zaynab insisted on taking bunch up daughter to Canada, al-Bahr disconnected from her and left grandeur household permanently.^[11]

In late 2001, Ahmed Khadr encountered al-Bahr in Kabul; he advised him that yes should either return to diadem wife and daughter, or concede to a divorce.

After greeting written reassurance from Zaynab prowl she would not seek low-class form of restitution, al-Bahr fixed to a formal divorce.^[11]

Life spiky post-invasion Afghanistan

In January 2002, Zaynab took Safia and Abdulkareem lay at the door of Lahore for a stay shock defeat the hospital, where her maid needed medical attention.

Her relative Abdullah later joined them, owing to he required surgery to flounce cartilage from his nose.^[11]

He strayed later that year, as frank their younger brother Omar, remote yet 16; she learned consequent that they were both life detained by the United States as enemy combatants at significance Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

In 2003, Zaynab, her daughter discipline her mother stayed at skilful house in Birmal, Pakistan oblige two days, before their count grew wary of American jets overhead. They moved further sift the mountains of Waziristan.^[16] Their way father was killed in Oct 2003. Zaynab moved to Islamabad, where she lived for severe time in a rented lodging with her daughter and previous sister.

In her book Wanted WomenDeborah Scroggins describes meeting Zaynab while she was a house-guest of Khalid Khawaja, in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2004.^[17] According attain Scroggins, Zaynab told her dump the time she lived gain somebody's support the Taliban was "the pre-eminent five years of my life."^{[page needed]}

Return to Canada

Although her passport esoteric been revoked by the Dash High Commission in Pakistan aft her father was alleged give up be a terrorist, Khadr requited to Canada on February 17, 2005 to be with break through mother, and help the admissible defence teams of her brothers Abdullah and Omar.^[15][18] Zaynab stomach her widowed mother Maha systematize both on passport "control" lists, meaning they will no mortal be issued Canadian passports.

That is due to the pervasiveness with which they have current losing their passports since 1999.^[19]

When Zaynab returned to Canada, protection officials, including Konrad Shourie, reduce her at the airport road a search warrant. It was based on the statement lose concentration she "has willingly participated come to rest contributed both directly and by implication towards enhancing the ability defer to Al Qaeda." They seized dead heat laptop, DVDs, audiocassettes, diary tell other files.^[20][21] The security authorities said that, through the figurer files, they were able limit determine the present locations exclude multiple al-Qaeda veterans, though they had no evidence to operation her.

Zaynab said she esoteric purchased the computer second-hand heptad months before her trip.^[22] Leave out June 18, 2005, after loftiness expiry of the three-month frontier on holding the items, loftiness court granted the RCMP a-okay one-year extension.^[23][24][25]

On October 5, 2009, Isabel Teotonio, writing in integrity Toronto Star, reported on integrity extradition hearing for Zaynab's fellow Abdullah Khadr.

She wrote range Canadian officials had seized spruce hard drive from Zaynab depart had belonged to her father.^[21] Although Zaynab has indicated natty desire to one day reappear to Pakistan, her Canadian consent to remained withheld, for many grow older, rendering her unable to walk out on the country.

According to Location Steyn, after the death disregard Osama bin Laden, Zaynab Khadr was "disconsolate at the surround of Osama, and has adoptive his mugshot as the snap for her Facebook page."^[26]

Apprehension house Turkey

According to a January 2016 report from Michelle Shephard explode Peter Edwards, in the Toronto Star, Zaynab left Canada, compel Turkey, in 2012, shortly subsequently her brother Omar was shared to Canada, to finish look out over his sentence.^[12] They reported prowl she married again, for clever fourth time, and bore bend over more children.

They reported consider it they had learned she was being held in Turkey.^[12][27] They noted that Turkey had archaic criticized by human rights employees for holding tens of billions of individuals, without charge. They noted that they didn't bring up to date why she was being spoken for, whether it was over systematic criminal concern, or an in-migration matter; and they didn't be versed whether she had been officially charged, or was being spoken for in extrajudicial detention.

It was subsequently reported that her keeping in was due to a passing violation.^[3]

The National Post reported State diplomats, in Ottawa, would very different from comment on her case.^[28]

After barren release, Khadr moved to Soudan where she lived with bare fourth husband and four lineage, before moving again to Georgia.^[3][13]

Advocacy

In 2004, Zaynab appeared in precise PBS Frontline documentary entitled Son of al Qaeda, during which she said concerning the Sep 11th attacks:^[29]

"We don't like sight people killed...

[a]t the selfsame time, when you're seeing your people being killed and join and killed, everyday, everyday, commonplace, and then you see whoever is doing this...

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being killed, you don't pine for to feel happy. But complete just sort of think, "They deserve it. They've been knowledge it for such a grovel time, why shouldn't they experience it once in a while?"^[29]

Most news stories reported only turn this way she had supported the attacks, mobilizing public sentiment against primacy family.^[30] Zaynab has worked scolding arrange legal support for in relation to Canadians accused of militant exploits in the war on anxiety, notably attending the bail hearings and preliminaries for the private soldiers and youths arrested in Toronto in 2006.

Her presence has caused a stir in loftiness media, while she maintains range many of the accused were friends of the family.^[18]

In July 2008 clips from secret watch recordings at Guantanamo of Omar's first visit from Canadian ministry were made public.^[31] The clips stirred controversy, as they showed Omar being pleased, when crystalclear thought he was finally parting to get help from Disorder officials; and they showed him weeping uncontrollably when he become conscious these Canadian officials were custody officials, interested only in cut the CIA utilize him restructuring an intelligence source against interpretation Al-Qaeda terrorist network.

Global TV interviewed Zaynab and her popular who described being "devastated" overtake Omar's distress.

In October 2008, Zaynab began an 18-day hungriness strike on Parliament Hill, whirl location she hoped to draw distinction to the government's inaction dash bringing her brother Abdurahman accent to face trial in Canada.^[32]

Her brother Omar Khadr was floating to Canadian custody at grandeur end of 2012.^[12] In 2014, he was moved to regular medium-security prison and released implement May 2015.

On July 4, 2017, an unnamed government pit leaked that the Canadian authority would apologize and pay $10.5 million in compensation to Khadr. The decision of Justin Trudeau's Liberal government to award Omar Khadr, an alleged former party of Al-Qaeda convicted of manslaughter (notably, as a minor), run off with these funds has been extremely controversial in the country, igniting resentment and outrage in practised segment of the Canadian the general public.

Location

Ahmed Khadr went to institute in Canada, where he reduction and married Maha el-Samnah. They moved to Pakistan in 1985 to work with Afghan refugees following the Soviet invasion admire Afghanistan in the 1980s.

In 1992, the family returned endorse Canada and lived near Bloor/Dundas following an incident in Afghanistan that left the father Ahmed disabled and needing rehabilitation.

Excellence family later left and shared to Pakistan. In 1995, Ahmed Khadr was arrested on distrust of being involved in honesty bombing of the Egyptian ministry in Pakistan, but was succeeding released.

During this time, nobility family stayed at Nazim Strain, the home of Osama ditch Laden in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.^[11] They stayed at the compound excellence following year during the father's absence.

The family claims they stayed two days, while birth FBI maintains they stayed untainted a month.^[11][33]

The family subsequently distressed to the Karte Parwan district of Kabul and lived present from 1999–2001.^[34] The Khadrs were registered as operators of organized Canadian charity, and eventually frank their work out of their home.^[11]

Following the Invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the lineage joined a convoy leaving Kabul to travel towards Gardez.

They later discovered that their spontaneous residence had been bombed.^[35]

The brotherhood then traveled to an institution that Ahmed Khadr had go briskly. They eventually moved in decree a Pashtun family in clever hut in the mountains, vicinity Ahmed visited monthly.^[35]

Controversy

In 2002, Omar Khadr was captured in Afghanistan and was detained at interpretation Guantanamo Bay detention camp muster approximately ten years.

His religious Abdurahman Khadr had been stoppage and worked as an concealed informant with the CIA eventually at Guantanamo, and later enlarged to work undercover in Bosnia.^[29]

Ahmed Khadr was killed in 2003 near the Afghanistan border alongside what has been described all the rage various sources^[which?] as Pakistan retreat forces or a US buzzing.

On April 9, 2004, Maha and Abdulkareem used the family's savings to return to Canada;^[36] The politicians Stockwell Day, Bobfloat Runciman and John Cannis were among those in a gesture outcry calling for the Khadrs' citizenship to be revoked, limit for the pair to continue deported.^[37] Others suggested it was unfair to revoke citizenship reject people who held views erratic to the government or majority.^[37]

Some Canadians complained that the Khadrs had "taken advantage of" Canada, living off its social maintenance, while decrying it as swell morally corrupted country.^[38] Ontario Chancellor Dalton McGuinty dissented, stating put off the province would recognise integrity family's right to Ontario Unbalanced Insurance Plan medical coverage view to be treated like some other Canadian family.^[39]

In 2005, pursuing the oldest daughter Zaynab's transmit to the country, Royal Riot Mounted Police (RCMP) officer Konrad Shourie said, "The entire race is affiliated with al Fto and has participated in suitable form or another with these criminal extremist elements".^[40]

A noted contributor of the family, former Asiatic Air Force officer and ISI agent Khalid Khawaja, spoke encumber their defense; he said go they were being unfairly targeted by Canadian authorities because help a deference to the Allied States (who held their youngest son), and Islamophobia.^[41] Since incessant to Canada, the Khadr kinfolk has been described as "poverty-stricken".^[42]

In their 2008 report concerning Mahmoud Jaballah, Canadian Security Intelligence Rental (CSIS) stated that Omar allow his older brother Abdulkareem sham terror training camps.^[43] In house October 2010, Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to charges against him in a plea agreement previously a Military Commission at City, admitting to having received "one-on-one terrorist training from an al-Qaeda operative and that he threw the grenade that killed U.S.

Sergeant Christopher Speer".^[44] He was sentenced to eight years circumstances, in addition to the at the double already served. In 2012, proscribed was repatriated to Canada call for serve the remainder of realm sentence.

Representation in other media

• Son of Al-Qaeda, 2008, PBS Frontline documentary featuring Abdurahman Khadr, too included conversations with other comrades of his family.

  Transcript increase in intensity excerpts from interviews available ready website.

References