1. Abdullah Ahmed Said Khadr is a Canadian citizen whose alleged ties to terrorism resulted in a protracted international legal issue.
38 Facts About Abdullah Khadr
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Abdullah Khadr was captured by the Pakistani military in 2004.
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Abdullah Khadr was repatriated to Canada in 2005, and shortly after was arrested on an extradition warrant to the United States.
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Abdullah Khadr was born in 1981 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada as the second child and first son to Ahmed Khadr and his wife Maha el-Samnah, while his father was still in graduate school in computer science.
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Abdullah Khadr was the oldest of five boys, and had two sisters, one older and one much younger.
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In 1994, Abdullah Khadr was sent to Khalden training camp along with his younger brother Abdurahman, where he was given the alias Hamza.
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Abdullah Khadr told Nasiri about seeing Afghans in Khost blown apart while trying to salvage an unexploded bomb.
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In 2000, Abdullah Khadr allegedly had contact with a "high level member of al-Qaeda" who took the 19-year-old with him to purchase weapons for fighting against the Northern Alliance militants and supplying an Afghan training camp.
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Abdullah Khadr later joined his siblings in Lahore, as he needed surgery on his nose.
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When interviewed for the 2004 documentary Son of al Qaeda, shown on PBS in the United States, Abdullah Khadr acknowledged attending the Khalden training camp as a youth.
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Abdullah Khadr asked his son, 22-year-old Abdullah Khadr, to help him procure weapons, as the younger man had some experience.
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Abdullah Khadr said they wanted to measure the distance between a local graveyard and a house Khadr believed belonged to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz.
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Abdullah Khadr is alleged to have purchased a forged Pakistani passport for 30,000 rupees, and to have given it to his sister Zaynab for safekeeping.
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In October 2004, Abdullah Khadr was allegedly purchasing five Soviet 9K38 Igla Surface-to-air missiles for $1000 apiece from a 29-year-old Pakistani member of Lakshar e-Taiba.
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Abdullah Khadr offered to split the profit upon selling the weapons for $5000 apiece to the same man who had taught him how to acquire munitions in 2000.
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Abdullah Khadr was arrested by the Pakistani military in Pakistan on October 15,2004.
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Details of the US bounty on Abdullah Khadr were initially hidden from the public, under claims it would threaten national security to admit the fact.
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Abdullah Khadr was questioned about Amer el-Maati, who he said had worked as a carpet salesman after al-Qaeda had refused to grant him a pension following a brain injury stemming from a 1992 car accident.
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Canadian consular officials were "mystified" when Abdullah Khadr did not appear at the airport.
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On each day, Abdullah Khadr waived any Miranda rights and agreed to speak with them.
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Abdullah Khadr repeated his earlier confession regarding his alleged training in Khalden, and purchasing munitions for the same "high level member of al-Qaeda" he had worked with in 2000.
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Abdullah Khadr returned to Toronto, Ontario, Canada on December 2,2005, accompanied by two officials from the Foreign Affairs department.
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Two days later, Abdullah Khadr agreed to another interview with FBI agents in the presence of Shourie.
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Court documents confirmed that he and his sister Zaynab Abdullah Khadr were both under investigation by the RCMP for terrorism-related offences.
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On December 17,2005 Abdullah Khadr was phoned by the Canadian police and asked to meet them at a nearby McDonald's restaurant in Toronto.
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When he arrived with family members, Abdullah Khadr was arrested based on a United States extradition order filed in US district court in Boston.
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Abdullah Khadr's mother was arrested after she hit one of the police officers.
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Abdullah Khadr reiterated that there was only one kind of Canadian citizenship, and that Abdullah Khadr, and the other members of his family, were as entitled to all the legal protections as any other citizen.
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Abdullah Khadr's lawyers tried to have a publication ban bar media from reporting on the bail hearing held for the suspect.
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Abdullah Khadr was represented by Nathan Whitling, Dennis Edney and James Silver.
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The motion for bail was opposed by the prosecutor Robin Parker, who referred to United States claims that the forged passport Abdullah Khadr had purchased in Pakistan was to allow him to travel to a country without an extradition treaty with the United States.
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Judge Molloy found there was an unacceptable risk that Abdullah Khadr would flee, and that the public confidence in the administration of justice would be undermined were she to grant Abdullah Khadr bail.
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On May 22,2006, Abdullah Khadr was involved in a brawl with another inmate over telephone privileges there.
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Abdullah Khadr appeared in court shortly afterwards, where he was represented by the attorney James Silver.
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Abdullah Khadr alleged that his confessions in Pakistan were obtained through torture.
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Abdullah Khadr argued that the evidence was what he had said to convince Pakistani interrogators to stop torturing him.
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On October 5,2009 Abdullah Khadr testified about his capture and treatment in Pakistan.
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In 2010 his attorney Nathan Whitling stated, Abdullah Khadr is engaged to be married.