1. Abdurahman Ahmed Said Khadr is a Canadian citizen who was held as an enemy combatant in extrajudicial detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, after being detained in 2002 in Afghanistan under suspicion of connections to Al-Qaeda.
Abdurahman Khadr later claimed to have been an informant for the CIA.
Abdurahman Khadr was released in the fall of 2003 and ultimately returned to Canada.
Abdurahman Khadr is the third child and second son of Ahmed Khadr, an Egyptian immigrant who was known for ties to al-Qaeda, and his wife Maha el-Samnah, who is Palestinian.
Abdurahman Khadr was born in Manama, Bahrain in 1982, the son of Ahmed Khadr and Maha el-Samnah.
Abdurahman Khadr's father went to graduate school in Ottawa, and then started working in Bahrain.
Ahmed Khadr visited Pakistan after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the early 1980s, and brought his family to Pakistan in 1985.
Abdurahman Khadr had an older sister and brother, three younger brothers and a younger sister.
In 1994, at the age of 12, Abdurahman Khadr was sent to Khalden training camp along with his older brother Abdullah, where he was given the alias Osama.
Abdurahman Khadr successfully persuaded his father to buy him a horse, too.
Once, when the two horses fought, the young bin Laden pointed a gun at Abdurahman Khadr, yelling at him to stop the fight before his prized Arabian was killed.
Abdurahman Khadr grudgingly agreed to look after the youth until his father returned.
Abdurahman Khadr later said that as a youth, he had hated the Americans for killing his friend.
In November 2001, at the age of 19, Abdurahman Khadr was captured by the Northern Alliance in Kabul, where he was wandering around.
An elderly man later claimed that Abdurahman Khadr had installed an anti-aircraft gun on the roof of a house.
Abdurahman Khadr was transferred to United States authorities on suspicion of having killed an American medic, but was released.
Abdurahman Khadr later claimed to have been captured several other times, and released each time.
The United States later said that Abdurahman Khadr had been removed from the camp in July 2003.
Abdurahman Khadr says he was later given a bogus passport and boarded a Gulfstream jet assigned to CIA Director George Tenet.
Abdurahman Khadr said that after a stop-over in Portugal, he landed in Bosnia where he was asked to conduct a spy operation at mosques in Sarajevo.
Abdurahman Khadr phoned his grandmother Fatmah el-Samnah while in Sarajevo and asked her to go to the Canadian media and tell them that he had been stranded and refused entry back into Canada.
Abdurahman Khadr was finally granted admission to the Canadian embassy in Bosnia and was flown back to Canada on November 30,2003.
On December 4,2003, Abdurahman Khadr held a press conference with his attorney Rocco Galati.
Abdurahman Khadr discussed his role in the War on Terror, but omitted later claimed cooperation with the CIA.
In March 2004, Abdurahman Khadr gave a series of three interviews to PBS, which became the basis of a documentary entitled Son of al Qaeda.
Abdurahman Khadr has offered a number of conflicting accounts of his life.
Abdurahman Khadr has repeatedly made comments suggesting that everything up until his most recent story was a lie.
In July 2004, Abdurahman Khadr was denied a Canadian passport by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, on the explicit advice of Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham, by invoking the royal prerogative.