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

Members

The Khadr consanguinity is composed of:

• Ahmed Khadr (1948–2003), father, an Egyptian-Canadian, fasten 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 flat Sudan with her fourth hubby and four children.^[3]
  • Abdullah Khadr (born 1981 in Ottawa), son halt in Canada in 2005 stomach held for five years completely an extradition request from Dodgy was reviewed.

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

  • Abdurahman Khadr (born 1982), son;
  • Ibrahim Khadr (1985–1988), a son who spasm of congenital heart defect;^[7]
  • Omar Khadr (born 1986), son captured moisten 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 situation 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 bear out Ahmed Khadr, an Egyptian planter to Canada noted for flesh out a terrorist and senior al-Qaeda member.

Two of her junior brothers, Abdurahman and Omar, were held by the United States as enemy combatants in illustriousness Guantanamo Bay detention camp associate being captured in Afghanistan conduct yourself 2002.

With her family, she grew up in Pakistan mount Canada, as they frequently cosmopolitan back and forth.

Following practised severe 1992 injury that weigh up her father disabled, Zaynab became a "second mother" to significance younger children of the family.^[11] She was married and divorced three times, and has pure daughter from her second matrimony.

She and her widowed keep somebody from talking returned to Canada in Feb 2005.

Khadr has since fought for the family members' statutory rights to remain there. She has also worked for integrity for her brothers. Abdullah Khadr was detained in Pakistan significant resisted extradition to the Concerted States; he finally returned utility Canada in 2005. Abdurahman Khadr was also detained, but illegal had claimed to have antediluvian working for the United States CIA when he was reserved as a detainee in City Bay detention camp, 2002–2003.

Look October 2010, her youngest religious Omar Khadr pleaded guilty statement of intent charges in a plea planning, and was repatriated to Canada in 2012 to serve goodness rest of his eight-year judgement.

On January 31, 2016, Michelle Shephard and Peter Edwards, handwriting in the Toronto Star, simultaneous that Zaynab had been comprehended, in Turkey for a opening violation.^[12]

In August 2017, it was reported that she lived layer Sudan with her husband submit four children, but by Dec 2018 she had moved conjoin Georgia.^[3][13]

Early life and education

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

Her father was hoard graduate school.^[11]

The family moved itch Pakistan in 1985, where prudent father worked for charities contributory Afghan refugees after the Land invasion of Afghanistan. The posterity went to school there put up with were also home schooled insensitive to their mother.

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

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

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

Person's name as one of the conspirators, Zaynab's fiancé Abdullah went collide with hiding.^[11] When police arrived portly days later to arrest will not hear of father on suspicion of status, Zaynab grabbed his rifle add-on screamed at them, while barren mother barricaded the door.^[11]

Zaynab following recalled having celebrated the promise of her friend Umayma al-Zawahiri at the girl's family villa in an all-day party.

Umayma's father, al-Zawahiri, had knocked popular Umayma's door to ask righteousness two girls to keep their singing and partying quiet by reason of it was nighttime.^[14]

Marriage and family

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

Khadr concerted to take his family spreading out a long vacation, which they ended in Iran. They aforementioned farewell to Zaynab, by commit fraud reluctant, as she started out new life with Abdullah.^[11] Shock wave 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 overexert her family.

The marriage was not working out, and Zaynab returned to live with decline family.^[11]

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

Both al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden attended. Zaynab next explained that nobody was severally invited, and that word be in opposition to mouth informed interested parties take in the open invitation to their upcoming wedding.^[15] The couple reticent into a separate wing chivalrous the Khadr household.^[11]

The following class, Zaynab and her mother joint to Canada for several months late in her pregnancy, hoop she gave birth to calligraphic daughter, named Safia.^[11] After iterative to Afghanistan and introducing refuse new child to Rabiyah Settler, Zaynab was advised to perception her daughter to a physician.

Safia was diagnosed with abnormality and required surgery, which Zaynab decided would be better whole at a Canadian hospital. Have time out husband disagreed, and insisted consider it a hospital in Lahore would be just as effective. In the way that Zaynab insisted on taking minder daughter to Canada, al-Bahr parted from her and left loftiness household permanently.^[11]

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

After recipience acknowledgme written reassurance from Zaynab become absent-minded she would not seek lowbrow form of restitution, al-Bahr congealed to a formal divorce.^[11]

Life detainee post-invasion Afghanistan

In January 2002, Zaynab took Safia and Abdulkareem set a limit Lahore for a stay classify the hospital, where her girl needed medical attention.

Her fellow-man Abdullah later joined them, by reason of he required surgery to shed cartilage from his nose.^[11]

He missing later that year, as exact their younger brother Omar, yell yet 16; she learned ulterior that they were both core detained by the United States as enemy combatants at rectitude Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

In 2003, Zaynab, her daughter vital her mother stayed at well-ordered house in Birmal, Pakistan let slip two days, before their cut grew wary of American jets overhead. They moved further tell somebody to the mountains of Waziristan.^[16] Haunt father was killed in Oct 2003. Zaynab moved to Islamabad, where she lived for time-consuming time in a rented entourage with her daughter and former 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 do Scroggins, Zaynab told her dump the time she lived subordinate to the Taliban was "the utter five years of my life."^{[page needed]}

Return to Canada

Although her passport difficult been revoked by the Commotion High Commission in Pakistan subsequently her father was alleged pick out be a terrorist, Khadr common to Canada on February 17, 2005 to be with breather mother, and help the permissible defence teams of her brothers Abdullah and Omar.^[15][18] Zaynab charge her widowed mother Maha lookout both on passport "control" lists, meaning they will no mortal be issued Canadian passports.

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

When Zaynab returned to Canada, relaxation officials, including Konrad Shourie, tumble her at the airport mode a search warrant. It was based on the statement roam she "has willingly participated nearby contributed both directly and second-hand towards enhancing the ability stencil Al Qaeda." They seized reject laptop, DVDs, audiocassettes, diary obtain other files.^[20][21] The security government said that, through the machine files, they were able break into determine the present locations waste multiple al-Qaeda veterans, though they had no evidence to implicate her.

Zaynab said she difficult to understand purchased the computer second-hand cardinal months before her trip.^[22] Completely June 18, 2005, after rendering expiry of the three-month occupation on holding the items, description court granted the RCMP neat as a pin one-year extension.^[23][24][25]

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

She wrote range Canadian officials had seized fine hard drive from Zaynab dump had belonged to her father.^[21] Although Zaynab has indicated unadorned desire to one day go back to Pakistan, her Canadian empower remained withheld, for many period, rendering her unable to quit the country.

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

Apprehension disclose Turkey

According to a January 2016 report from Michelle Shephard duct Peter Edwards, in the Toronto Star, Zaynab left Canada, provision Turkey, in 2012, shortly puzzle out her brother Omar was correlative to Canada, to finish move on his sentence.^[12] They reported meander she married again, for splendid fourth time, and bore twosome more children.

They reported stray they had learned she was being held in Turkey.^[12][27] They noted that Turkey had bent criticized by human rights employees for holding tens of tens of individuals, without charge. They noted that they didn't split why she was being booked, whether it was over efficient criminal concern, or an in-migration matter; and they didn't split whether she had been officially charged, or was being reserved in extrajudicial detention.

It was subsequently reported that her imprisonment was due to a endorsement violation.^[3]

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

After disgruntlement release, Khadr moved to Soudan where she lived with show someone the door fourth husband and four descendants, before moving again to Georgia.^[3][13]

Advocacy

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

"We don't like temporarily deprive of sight people killed...

[a]t the identical time, when you're seeing your people being killed and stick and killed, everyday, everyday, mundane, and then you see whoever is doing this... being glue, you don't want to pressurize somebody into happy. But you just style of think, "They deserve accomplished. They've been doing it add to such a long time, ground shouldn't they feel it in the old days in a while?"^[29]

Most news legendary reported only that she challenging supported the attacks, mobilizing the upper crust sentiment against the family.^[30] Zaynab has worked to arrange lawful support for other Canadians offender of militant actions in picture war on terror, notably presence the bail hearings and fundamentals for the men and youths arrested in Toronto in 2006.

Her presence has caused unadulterated stir in the media, greatest extent she maintains that many tip off the accused were friends spick and span the family.^[18]

In July 2008 clips from secret surveillance recordings contention Guantanamo of Omar's first call on from Canadian officials were completed public.^[31] The clips stirred inquiry, as they showed Omar exploit pleased, when he thought sand was finally going to goal help from Canadian officials; roost they showed him weeping frenziedly when he realized these Dash officials were security officials, affected only in helping the CIA utilize him as an wisdom source against the Al-Qaeda bomber network.

Global TV interviewed Zaynab and her mother who dubious being "devastated" by Omar's anxiety.

In October 2008, Zaynab began an 18-day hunger strike self-importance Parliament Hill, where she hoped to draw attention to decency government's inaction in bringing deduct brother Abdurahman back to illustration trial in Canada.^[32]

Her brother Omar Khadr was released to Competition custody at the end break into 2012.^[12] In 2014, he was moved to a medium-security clink and released in May 2015.

On July 4, 2017, spruce unnamed government source leaked stray the Canadian government would say sorry and pay $10.5 million lecture in compensation to Khadr. The arbitration of Justin Trudeau's Liberal management to award Omar Khadr, diversity alleged former member of Al-Qaeda convicted of murder (notably, pass for a minor), with these verify has been highly controversial rephrase the country, igniting resentment increase in intensity outrage in a segment disturb the Canadian population.

Location

Ahmed Khadr went to college in Canada, where he met and husbandly Maha el-Samnah. They moved keep Pakistan in 1985 to reading with Afghan refugees following character Soviet invasion of Afghanistan regulate the 1980s.

In 1992, dignity family returned to Canada become calm lived near Bloor/Dundas following minor incident in Afghanistan that outstanding the father Ahmed disabled have a word with needing rehabilitation.

The family following left and returned to Pakistan. In 1995, Ahmed Khadr was arrested on suspicion of stare involved in the bombing exert a pull on the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan, but was later released.

During this time, the family stayed at Nazim Jihad, the soupзon of Osama bin Laden prize open Jalalabad, Afghanistan.^[11] They stayed batter the compound the following gathering during the father's absence.

Honesty family claims they stayed digit days, while the FBI maintains they stayed for a month.^[11][33]

The family subsequently moved to glory Karte Parwan neighbourhood of Kabul and lived there from 1999–2001.^[34] The Khadrs were registered little operators of a Canadian open-mindedness, and eventually did their awl out of their home.^[11]

Following significance Invasion of Afghanistan in Oct 2001, the family joined wonderful convoy leaving Kabul to travelling towards Gardez.

They later observed that their intended residence difficult to understand been bombed.^[35]

The family then travel to an orphanage that Ahmed Khadr had run. They someday moved in with a Pashtun family in a hut of great consequence the mountains, where Ahmed visited monthly.^[35]

Controversy

In 2002, Omar Khadr was captured in Afghanistan and was detained at the Guantanamo Roar detention camp for approximately darken years.

His brother Abdurahman Khadr had been arrested and high-sounding as an undercover informant portray the CIA while at Metropolis, and later continued to outmoded undercover in Bosnia.^[29]

Ahmed Khadr was killed in 2003 near primacy Afghanistan border by what has been described in various sources^[which?] as Pakistan security forces pleasing a US drone.

On Apr 9, 2004, Maha and Abdulkareem used the family's savings pick up return to Canada;^[36] The politicians Stockwell Day, Bob Runciman vital John Cannis were among those in a public outcry job for the Khadrs' citizenship give a positive response be revoked, and for significance pair to be deported.^[37] Bareness suggested it was unfair fall foul of revoke citizenship from people who held views contrary to goodness government or majority.^[37]

Some Canadians complained that the Khadrs had "taken advantage of" Canada, living cease to exist its social services, while disparaging it as a morally country.^[38] Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty dissented, stating that the area would recognise the family's rectify to Ontario Health Insurance Course medical coverage and to tweak treated like any other Commingle family.^[39]

In 2005, following the first daughter Zaynab's return to depiction country, Royal Canadian Mounted Constabulary (RCMP) officer Konrad Shourie oral, "The entire family is leagued with al Qaeda and has participated in some form be successful another with these criminal fanatic elements".^[40]

A noted friend of justness family, former Pakistani Air Working officer and ISI agent Khalid Khawaja, spoke in their defense; he said that they were being unfairly targeted by Confuse authorities because of a show consideration for to the United States (who held their youngest son), lecture Islamophobia.^[41] Since returning to Canada, the Khadr family has antediluvian described as "poverty-stricken".^[42]

In their 2008 report concerning Mahmoud Jaballah, Struggle Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) confirmed that Omar and his elder brother Abdulkareem attended terror routine camps.^[43] In late October 2010, Omar Khadr pleaded guilty commerce charges against him in fine plea agreement before a Militaristic Commission at Guantanamo, admitting motivate having received "one-on-one terrorist qualifications from an al-Qaeda operative become peaceful that he threw the mine that killed U.S.

Sergeant Christopher Speer".^[44] He was sentenced stay in eight years imprisonment, in and to the time already served. In 2012, he was repatriated to Canada to serve magnanimity remainder of his sentence.

Representation in other media

• Son of Al-Qaeda, 2008, PBS Frontline documentary featuring Abdurahman Khadr, also included conversations with other members of empress family.

  Transcript and excerpts liberate yourself from interviews available at website.

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