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Returning to Toronto in the summer of 1986, Ibrahim underwent more surgery, and on [[September 19]] Maha gave birth to [[Omar Khadr|Omar]].
Returning to Toronto in the summer of 1986, Ibrahim underwent more surgery, and on [[September 19]] Maha gave birth to [[Omar Khadr|Omar]].
Five days later, Ahmed was featured in the [[Toronto Star]], decrying the lack of attention being paid to the plight of Afghanistan. He condemned the Soviets for [[cluster bomblet]]s disguised to look like brightly-coloured toys, which encouraged children to pick up the munitions off the ground, often at the cost of their arms.
Five days later, Ahmed was featured in the [[Toronto Star]], decrying the lack of attention being paid to the plight of Afghanistan. He condemned the Soviets for [[cluster bomblet]]s and landmines disguised to look like brightly-coloured toys, which encouraged children to pick up the munitions off the ground, often at the cost of their arms.


In the autumn, the family returned to Peshawar, where Ahmed met [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]]<ref name="child" />, a doctor who had been convicted for [[arms dealing]] five years earlier,<ref>[[Lawrence Wright]], [[The Looming Tower]], 2006 ISBN 9-375-41486-X. </ref> and now worked in the Red Crescent hospital treating wounded refugees. The two quickly became friends, and had many conversations about the need for Islamic government and the needs of the Afghan people.<ref name="child" />
In the autumn, the family returned to Peshawar, where Ahmed met [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]]<ref name="child" />, a doctor who had been convicted for [[arms dealing]] five years earlier,<ref>[[Lawrence Wright]], [[The Looming Tower]], 2006 ISBN 9-375-41486-X. </ref> and now worked in the Red Crescent hospital treating wounded refugees. The two quickly became friends, and had many conversations about the need for Islamic government and the needs of the Afghan people.<ref name="child" />
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In 1987, Khadr convinced his wife to let her parents take care of their sickly son Ibrahim in Scarborough, claiming that she could help a hundred Afghan children in Peshawar by sending one of their children back to [[Scarborough Hospital]] for care.<ref name="child" />
In 1987, Khadr convinced his wife to let her parents take care of their sickly son Ibrahim in Scarborough, claiming that she could help a hundred Afghan children in Peshawar by sending one of their children back to [[Scarborough Hospital]] for care.<ref name="child" />


In January 1988, Maha returned to Toronto with Omar to look after Ibrahim so her parents could visit relatives in the [[Middle East]]. He became sick during the visit, and was rushed to [[Centenary Hospital]] where he was pronounced [[Brain death|brain dead]] the following morning.<ref name="child" /> It was around this time that Ahmed found [[The Adventures of Tintin]], a favourite book of his childhood, at an [[Islamabad]] marketplace. Omar, then five years old, developed his father's love of the series and would often quote the [[Captain Haddock]] character, eliciting laughter from the family.<ref name="child" />
In January 1988, Maha returned to Toronto with Omar to look after Ibrahim so her parents could visit relatives in the [[Middle East]]. He became sick during the visit, and was rushed to [[Centenary Hospital]] and later to [[Hospital for Sick Children]] where he was pronounced [[Brain death|brain dead]] the following morning.<ref name="child" /> Ac couple of years later Ahmed found [[The Adventures of Tintin]], a favourite book of his childhood, at an [[Islamabad]] marketplace. All the younger Khadrs, developed thier father's love of the series and Omar would often quote the [[Captain Haddock]] character, eliciting laughter from the family.<ref name="child" />
[[Image:Ahmed Khadr ID Card.jpg|thumb|Khadr's identity card from HCI.]]
[[Image:Ahmed Khadr ID Card.jpg|thumb|Khadr's identity card from HCI.]]
That year, Ahmed joined [[Human Concern International]] full-time, a Canadian-based charity operating in Peshawar with whom he had been cooperating.<ref name=Apology>[http://action.web.ca/home/sap/media.shtml?x=57414 National Post Apologizes to Human Concern International], ''[[South Asia Partnership Canada]]'', [[April 26]] 2004</ref> The charity had come under scrutiny that year after [[Osama bin Laden]] told an interviewer that "The bin Laden Establishment's aid covers 13 countries...this aid comes in particular from the Human Concern International Society"<ref>[http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/burnettba81502cmp.pdf Burnett, et al. v. al Baraka Investment and Development Corp., et al], Jan. 18, 2005.</ref> Ahmed was suspected of using the charity to move money from Pakistan into Afghanistan unnoticed.<ref>Farah, Joseph. [[World Net Daily]], "[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=15119 Family of Canadian teen has extensive al-Qaeda ties]", September 6 2002</ref>
That year, Ahmed joined [[Human Concern International]] full-time, a Canadian-based charity operating in Peshawar with whom he had been cooperating.<ref name=Apology>[http://action.web.ca/home/sap/media.shtml?x=57414 National Post Apologizes to Human Concern International], ''[[South Asia Partnership Canada]]'', [[April 26]] 2004</ref> The charity had come under scrutiny that year after [[Osama bin Laden]] told an interviewer that "The bin Laden Establishment's aid covers 13 countries...this aid comes in particular from the Human Concern International Society"<ref>[http://fl1.findlaw.com/news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/burnettba81502cmp.pdf Burnett, et al. v. al Baraka Investment and Development Corp., et al], Jan. 18, 2005.</ref> Ahmed was suspected of using the charity to move money from Pakistan into Afghanistan unnoticed.<ref>Farah, Joseph. [[World Net Daily]], "[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=15119 Family of Canadian teen has extensive al-Qaeda ties]", September 6 2002</ref>

Revision as of 02:25, 27 May 2008

File:Ahmed Khadr in 1985 Pakistan.jpg
Ahmed Khadr, in Pakistan in 1995.

An Egyptian-Canadian aid worker and patriarch of the Khadr family, Ahmed Said Khadr (أحمد سعيد خضر) (March 1 1948 – October 2 2003) worked with a number of charitable non-governmental organizations (NGOs) serving Afghan refugees. He set up two orphanages for children whose parents had been killed in the Soviet invasion, and funded the construction of a hospital in Afghanistan with his own savings.[1][2]

His close ties to a number of militant and Mujahideen leaders, including Osama bin Laden, saw him accused of being a "senior associate" and financier of al-Qaeda, while his family insisted that he maintained the contacts to help his charity work.[3][4]

The Canadian government had considered him the country's highest-ranking member of Al Qaeda,[5] and he appeared on the United Nations list of al-Qaeda members as early as 1999.[6] But his Canadian Imam Ali Hindy spoke after his death, saying "I don't think that he was al-Qaeda, but I think he felt that now he became part of Afghanistan."[7] His friends described him as being "proud of [being a] Canadian citizen",[7] while politicians and media have suggested that he disliked the country. Following his death, his family moved back to Canada where they remain today.

Canadian attorney Dennis Edney has challenged the tendency to simply assume Khadr was a member of al-Qaeda stating that he would "be really interested in obtaining one piece of evidence that would show indeed that Mr. Khadr was actually a terrorist. To me, it's just folklore."[8]

Early life

Born in Egypt to Mohamed Zaki Khadr and Munira Osman, Khadr later delighted in telling how his father had been asked by Munira's father to investigate a potential suitor, and had reported back that the man seemed unsuitable. He was subsequently invited to a dinner with the family, as a show of the father's appreciation - and fell in love with Munira himself.[9]

Raised in Shubra El-Kheima, Khadr was a shy child with a speech impediment and frequently stayed at the house of his much older half-brother Ahmed Fouad.[9] When Fouad left for the United States in the 1970s, Khadr asked his father if he could follow - but was forbidden. Planning the move behind his father's back, Khadr moved to Montreal, Canada in 1975.[9]

After a few months in Montreal, Khadr moved to Toronto, before being accepted at the University of Ottawa to study Computer Programming. It was in Ottawa that he met Qasem Mahmud, the founder of Camp Al-Mu-Mee-Neen in Creemore, Ontario. Anxious to settle down and begin a family, the secular 29-year old volunteered to help at the camp. There he met Maha Elsamnah, who was impressed by his calmness and thought he was a good listener. Mahmud later described their meeting as "love at first sight".[9]

Marriage and travel

Khadr at his Toronto wedding.

Ahmed and Maha married in November at Jami Mosque in Toronto.[9] In May 1978, the couple moved to Ottawa so Ahmed could finish his studies. In 1979, Maha gave birth to Zaynab.[9]

Khadr joined the Muslim Students Association at the university and came to agree with their notions of Sharia law, and became a vocal advocate of Islamic rule for his native Egypt.[9]

While Ahmed was employed at Bell Northern Research, Maha gave birth to Abdullah in 1981. The following year, Ahmed was offered a position at the Gulf Polytechnique University in Bahrain, where he hoped to become a professor.[9] Believing Canadian culture was a corrupting influence, he accepted the position.[10]

In 1982, Maha gave birth to Abdurahman. Disappointed to find Western influences in Bahrain, Ahmed became captivated by the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and began to feel guilty about his relative wealth and comfort, compared to the Muslim widows and orphans in Afghanistan.[9]

Ignoring the arguments of Azzam Tamimi, an Islamic academic living in Bahrain at the time, Ahmed insisted that he had no intentions of helping to fight the Soviets, only of helping the victims of the invasion.[9]

Through 1983 and 1984, the family remained in Bahrain while the children were in school, and during the summer holidays Ahmed would travel to Pakistan while his wife took the three children back home to Scarborough, Canada where they lived with Maha's parents.[9]

Time spent between Pakistan and Canada

During his 1984 summer in Pakistan, Ahmed decided to join Lajnat al Dawa, a Kuwaiti-run relief organisation seeking volunteers to help with Afghan refugees living in Pakistan.[11][9] He flew back to Toronto in December with his family, to explain his decision to Maha's parents. Returning briefly to Bahrain, the family stopped in Kuwait to meet the charity's organisers. By January, they had settled down in a second-floor apartment above the Kuwait Red Crescent Society's offices in Peshawar, Pakistan.[9]

While in Pakistan, Ahmed became increasingly known by the kunya name Abu Abdurahman al-Kanadi (Father of Abdurahman, the Canadian), due to a misunderstanding among the community about which of his sons was eldest.[9] Refusing to abandon his western clothing, Ahmed frequently took care of the children while Maha volunteered at the Red Crescent hospital.[9]

During his time in Pakistan, Khadr met with journalist Eric Margolis several times, who later recalled that Khadr was a "man of respect" in the city, and seemed "entirely humanitarian and not ideological at all".[9] The family would frequently return to Canada, several times a year, visiting family while Ahmed raised donations for his charitable work, giving speeches at mosques and community events.[9]

During one of the visits back to Toronto, on July 6 1985, Maha gave birth to the couple's fourth child, Ibrahim. Diagnosed with a congenital heart defect, he was transferred to the city's Hospital for Sick Children for surgery. Three months later, the family returned to Peshawar.[9]

That year, Khadr met Abdullah Anas, an Algerian who had helped fight the Soviets in northern Afghanistan. Anas would later describe Khadr as "not a man of fighting, not a man of jihad, just a man of charity work aid".[9] He also became acquainted with Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, the founder of the Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan and a Mujahideen warlord with whom Khadr would later nurture a close relationship.[9]

Returning to Toronto in the summer of 1986, Ibrahim underwent more surgery, and on September 19 Maha gave birth to Omar. Five days later, Ahmed was featured in the Toronto Star, decrying the lack of attention being paid to the plight of Afghanistan. He condemned the Soviets for cluster bomblets and landmines disguised to look like brightly-coloured toys, which encouraged children to pick up the munitions off the ground, often at the cost of their arms.

In the autumn, the family returned to Peshawar, where Ahmed met Ayman al-Zawahiri[9], a doctor who had been convicted for arms dealing five years earlier,[12] and now worked in the Red Crescent hospital treating wounded refugees. The two quickly became friends, and had many conversations about the need for Islamic government and the needs of the Afghan people.[9]

In 1987, Khadr convinced his wife to let her parents take care of their sickly son Ibrahim in Scarborough, claiming that she could help a hundred Afghan children in Peshawar by sending one of their children back to Scarborough Hospital for care.[9]

In January 1988, Maha returned to Toronto with Omar to look after Ibrahim so her parents could visit relatives in the Middle East. He became sick during the visit, and was rushed to Centenary Hospital and later to Hospital for Sick Children where he was pronounced brain dead the following morning.[9] Ac couple of years later Ahmed found The Adventures of Tintin, a favourite book of his childhood, at an Islamabad marketplace. All the younger Khadrs, developed thier father's love of the series and Omar would often quote the Captain Haddock character, eliciting laughter from the family.[9]

Khadr's identity card from HCI.

That year, Ahmed joined Human Concern International full-time, a Canadian-based charity operating in Peshawar with whom he had been cooperating.[13] The charity had come under scrutiny that year after Osama bin Laden told an interviewer that "The bin Laden Establishment's aid covers 13 countries...this aid comes in particular from the Human Concern International Society"[14] Ahmed was suspected of using the charity to move money from Pakistan into Afghanistan unnoticed.[15]

Not long after, Anas spoke to Abdullah Azzam about the need to ensure Muslim help reached northern Afghanistan, and not just that of Western NGOs.[9] Khadr was approached by Azzam, and was placed in charge of a new charity to be affiliated with the Muslim World League NGO.[2]. Khadr also promised to help fundraise for a new Peshawar-based charity to be named al-Tahaddi (The Challenge), if Azzam would grant him a letter of endorsement to take back to Canadian mosques calling for donations.[9] When he returned to Peshawar however, Khadr accused Azzam of "confiscating"[16] the money he had raised, and spreading rumors that he was a Western spy. A Sharia court led by Jamal al-Fadl was convened in Osama bin Laden's compound, and Azzam was found guilty in absentia of spreading allegations against Khadr and ordered to turn the money back over to the charity for which it had been raised, though no further sentence was imposed.[16] When Azzam was killed in 1989, Khadr was among the mourners at his funeral, "visibly distraught".[9]

In 1989, Maha gave birth to a fifth son, Abdulkareem. Eight months after the end of the Soviet invasion, Khadr was profiled in the Toronto Star newspaper, pleading for Western aid to help Afghanistan rebuild, pointing to the highest child mortality rate in the world.[9] It was around this time that he began to eschew Western clothing, and adopted the kurta and pakul which had come to symbolise the Mujahideen.[9]

In September 1991, Khadr gave a fundraising lecture entitled Afghanistan: The Untold Story at the Markham Islamic Centre. Although nominally about the suffering of the widows and orphans in the wartorn country, he noticeably focused attention on the valor of the Mujahideen who had repelled the Soviets.[9]

Abdulkareem (left) and Omar (right).

The following year, Khadr sustained severe shrapnel wounds which tore apart his right side, puncturing his bladder and a kidney. The exact cause of the wounds is debated, Human Concern International maintains that Khadr was inside one of their refugee camps when he stepped on a landmine, while his son Abdurahman has said that he was hurt by a bomb during the ongoing battles between warlords.[9]

Unable to get proper medical care in Peshawar, he was taken to Karachi, but Maha convinced him to return to Toronto a month later, and he was admitted to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Although there were fears he'd never walk again, or his arm would require amputation, surgeon Terry Axelrod managed to treat Khadr successfully, and would later work the treatments into one of his medical lecture programmes.[9] His half-brother Ahmed Faoud came up from the United States to visit Khadr, who was growing restless with his long recovery time. [9]

Return to Pakistan

Three of the Khadr sons, Abdurahman (rear), Abdulkareem (middle) and Omar (foreground) in an apartment in Peshawar.

In the autumn of 1993, Khadr returned to Pakistan with his family, renting a comfortable house with its own garden in Hayatabad while he continued working with HCI despite his injuries. Carrying his own folding chair and walking with a limp, Khadr found his injuries a frustrating dehabilitation.[9]

Khadr loved rabbits, generally raised as game in Pakistan, and had brought a pair home as pets for his children, although Pistachio and Bandit quickly had offspring and Ahmed would frequently spend time in the backyard feeding and playing with the small animals. [9] Before leaving for Tajikstan in 1994, a young Ibn Al-Khattab gave Abdulkareem a rabbit of his own, which was promptly named Khattab. The rabbit's legs were injured during rough play with his youngest daughter Maryam, and the crippled Ahmed would often sit in the backyard, crying over it.[9]

Human Concern International had struggled with the year-long absence of Khadr's management, and had hired Abdullah Almalki from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, who was on sabbatical leave at the time of Khadr's return. The two managers clashed, as Khadr's work ethic had changed after his injury. He had become a demanding workaholic who began alienating his colleagues, and Almalki left his placement with HCI early, citing frustration with Khadr.[9] Khadr's eldest son, Abdullah later confided in his father that he was not spending enough time with his family, due to his time and efforts towards the local orphanages, leading Khadr to respond "You're living okay. You have your father, you have your mother" and adding that he would serve as the parental figure for orphans, angering his son.[17]

Maintaining his connections with regional warlords, Khadr was furious at their in-fighting which he felt was invalidating the Mujahideen success in driving out the Soviets.[9] Believing in the need for an Islamic government, he would instill his children with a belief in the nobility and rewards of martyrdom, talking about his personal concept of Jannah involving waterfalls and rare white elephants, and laughing that Canada should become an Islamic country because the CN Tower already resembled a minaret.[9]

In 1994, he sent his two oldest sons, Abdullah and Abdurahman to Khalden training camp.[9] He visited the camp only once himself after his sons were enrolled, to meet with Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi.[18]


Maha (Abdulkareem in arms), Omar, Zaynab, Abdurahman (facing camera) and Maryam (foreground) in Islamabad while Ahmed was in prison.

In July 1995, Khadr arranged for his 15-year old daughter Zaynab to marry an Egyptian man named Khalid Abdullah in December, and Maha began preparing an apartment for the couple in the family's house.[9]

On November 19 Ayman al-Zawahiri bombed the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan, and the suitor Ahmed had arranged for his daughter went into hiding, named as one of the conspirators.[9] A warrant was sworn for Khadr's arrest eight days later, after it was announced that a Sudanese man staying with the family had purchased one of the vehicles used in the attack.[19][20] Police went to his house, but he was still in Afghanistan and had been there since before the attacks. Maha barricaded the door, while the 15-year old Zaynab took her father's rifle and held it over her head screaming. The police managed to enter, and took the family into custody while they searched the house, seizing $10,000[21] or $40,000[22] in cash from the home. While he insisted the money was to pay the salaries of HCI workers, others alleged he had used HCI to launder money eventually used to finance the attack.[23][24]

Stories disagree whether Ahmed was arrested on December 3 at the border crossing back into Pakistan, or if he had returned to his home the previous day and gone to the police station to lodge a complaint about the raid, and been arrested.[21] He was charged with aiding terrorism, and faced the death penalty.[25]

He launched a hunger strike and was interviewed in hospital, proclaiming he was innocent and that his work consisted solely of charitable work to provide food and schooling to Afghan orphans.

As Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien happened to then be visiting Pakistan, he mentioned the matter to Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who promised "fair trial and fair treatment". Later the case was dropped due to lack of evidence.

Later career

In July 1996, Khadr met with bin Laden, as the latter was beginning construction on a large house.[26]

By 1996, the Pakistani press accused HCI's Peshawar office of being made up of Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya members, who supported the overthrow of the secular Egyptian government in favour of a Sharia state.[27] Khadr then founded his own charity, Health and Education Project International, which was based out of the Canadian Salahedin Mosque. American prosecutors have alleged the new group, while collecting $70,000 in donations, supported Afghan training camps.[28][29][30][13]

During a stay in Canada in approximately 1998, Khadr met briefly with Mahmoud Jaballah, after his mother-in-law and Jaballah's wife shared a grocery-shopping trip together. The two reportedly drank tea, and discussed the fact that they had both worked for relief agencies in Peshawar.[31] That year, Pakistan renewed its claims that Khadr was involved in the embassy bombing, and again accused him of money laundering and smuggling.[32]

Reports suggest that when Pakistani forces stormed the apartment of an Algerian named Abu Elias in Lahore, Khadr was actually present but was either not recognised by the troops, or allowed to leave.[33]

In January of 2001, Khadr's name was added to a United Nations list of individuals who supported terrorism associated with Bin Laden.[34]

Later that year, Egyptian forces surrounded Khadr's house in Peshawar, and requested that Pakistani ISI forces offer assistance in capturing the man they still believed had knowledge of the Embassy bombing in Islamabad. Instead, the ISI contacted the Taliban, who sent a diplomatic car to pick up Khadr and bring him into Afghanistan.[35]

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Immediately following the September 11th attacks, the United States issued a 22-page statement that Khadr was "wanted in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and Pentagon".[36] On October 13, the United States froze Khadr's assets.[37]

When the Taliban deserted Kabul several weeks later[2], Bin Laden approached Khadr and asked him to join the Mujahideen Shura.[2] In April 2002 it was believed that he had fled Nangarhar to Paktia, along with Mullah Kabir[38] When his second son, Abdurahman was taken prisoner by the Northern Alliance in November,[39] he sent a request to have his son freed since he had helped the Alliance in the past, but was told that unless he could pay a $10,000 ransom then Abdurahman would be turned over to the Americans. Lacking the money, Khadr asked his eldest son Abdullah to not tell his mother about Abdurahman's capture, and only insist that he was "missing", rather than captured.[17]

In 2003, he was asked to organise militants operating near the border of Shagai, Pakistan, and subsequently asked his son Abdullah and Hamza al-Jowfi to help him procure weapons.[40][9] He clashed with Abdul Hadi al Iraqi, arguing that guerilla tactics would prove more useful than front line battle.[9]

Death

On 2 October 2003, Khadr, his son Abdulkareem, al-Jowfi, al-Iraqi, Khalid Habib and Qari Ismail were all staying at a South Waziristan safe house. The following day, after Fajr prayers, Khadr told his son that Pakistani troops had warned a raid was scheduled in the village, and told him to start moving.[9] A few minutes later, a Pakistani helicopter team and hundreds of security forces attacked the village,[41] and Abdulkareem lay down in a ditch but was shot in the spine.[9]

Initial reports were varied, Pakistan initially reported that Khadr had escaped hours before the raid[42], while other reports suggested that rumors of his death may have been staged to escape investigators, but they met with little credence from experts.[7] Early reports said that it was a joint American-Pakistani operation, while later reports denied American involvement.[43]

Reports said that 12 "al-Qaeda and Taliban members" were killed in the raid on the "armed encampment", including Hasan Mahsum[44][7], and that two al-Qaeda members had been captured.[42]

In late December, Maha had attorney Hashmat Ali Habib file a petition to the Supreme Court of Pakistan asking for details about whether her husband and son were killed or captured in the operation.[45]

It was finally reported in January, three months after the operation, that his DNA had been matched to a body found just outside the doorway and he was indeed killed in the attack, leading his family to request the return of his body for burial in Canada.[9][46][47] His son Abdulkareem, then 14, was paralyzed in the same incident.

Canadian investigation of Khadr

On December 7 2006 it was acknowledged that Khadr's inlaws' property was raided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as part of Project O Canada in January 2002.[8]

At some point, Mohammad Harkat met Khadr in Ottawa and the two of them shared a car back to Toronto. Harkat claims that he met Khadr through his roommate Mohamed El Barseigy, and that Khadr was silent during most of the trip.[48]

and Mahmoud Jaballah.[49]

In July 2003, the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress stated that Khadr's last known whereabouts were in Afghanistan in November 2001.[50]

Civil lawsuit

Judge Paul Cassells

Sgt. Layne Morris and Sgt. Speer's widow Tabitha, both represented by Donald Winder[51], launched a joint civil suit against the estate of Khadr - claiming that the father's failure to control Omar resulted in the loss of Speers' life and Morris' right eye. Since American law doesn't allow civil lawsuits against "acts of war", Speer and Morris relied on the argument that Omar throwing a grenade was an act of terrorism, rather than war. Utah District Judge Paul Cassell gaving his ruling on February 17 2006, awarding $102.6 million in damages, approximately $94 million to Speer and $8 million to Morris[52], in what he said likely marks the first time terrorist acts have resulted in civil liabilities.[53] It has been suggested that the plaintiffs might collect funds via the U.S. Terrorism Risk Insurance Act,[54] but since the Federal government is not bound by civil rulings, it has refused to release Khadr's frozen assets.[55]

Biography

On February 7 2008, it was reported that a biography of Khadr was published on an "al Qaeda web-site" as part of an on-line book entitled "Book of 120 Martyrs in Afghanistan."[56][57]

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  46. ^ CBC, "Khadr has right to burial in Canada: son", January 24 2004
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  54. ^ Dawn House (June 14 2007). "Judge clears way for wounded soldier to collect judgement against terrorist". Salt Lake Tribune. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Text "urlhttp://www.sltrib.com/ci_6140530" ignored (help)
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