Posted on 06/14/2005 10:29:19 AM PDT by Pikamax
Mounties uncover 'Al Qaeda' cache Plans, tapes diaries seized at Pearson Zaynab Khadr denies they belong to her
MICHELLE SHEPHARD STAFF REPORTER
OTTAWA—The RCMP and Canadian military believe they've discovered a vital cache of information on Al Qaeda that includes the whereabouts of wanted members and details of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan.
The information is allegedly contained in a laptop, dozens of DVDs, audiocassettes and the pages of diaries, seized by the RCMP officers who met Zaynab Khadr at Pearson airport with a search warrant as she arrived back in Canada in February, court documents state.
Khadr is the eldest daughter of a family that has admitted close ties to Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and whose patriarch was once believed to be the highest-ranking Canadian member of Al Qaeda. Her younger brother, Omar, is currently Canada's only known detainee in the American camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
With the three-month time limit allotted to the federal police force to hold the items having now expired, the RCMP must go to a Toronto court this Friday to persuade a judge to allow them to continue doing a forensic evaluation of the seized materials. But Khadr's lawyer Dennis Edney says the Mounties are on nothing more than a "fishing expedition," and will argue that Khadr is entitled to her possessions.
Khadr, 25, said in an interview yesterday that anything found on the laptop, except personal pictures and a few "cartoons" that she downloaded, are not hers. She says she bought her laptop second-hand about seven months before coming to Canada. The audiocassettes, described in court documents as providing "significant information regarding `after-battle action reports' of Al Qaeda and Taliban insurgents" involved in attacking coalition forces in Afghanistan, were found among her father's possessions after he was killed in 2003, Khadr said.
"I think it's my right to bring what I want since I'm not breaking any laws, so I decided to bring them," she said. "Although I don't know what's on them, I still thought I'd bring them."
Khadr has not been charged in Canada or Pakistan, where she lived with her young daughter and sister before returning to Scarborough to be with her mother and brothers.
The court documents state there are "still a number of steps" to be taken in the investigation, that cannot be disclosed, but that her written records are being studied by the RCMP's behavioural sciences unit for a "psychological analysis" and to determine if she is a "threat to society."
Among her possessions, the RCMP allege, are downloaded clips of bin Laden's voice and songs — one titled "I am a Terrorist" — which contain excerpts from speeches calling for the killing of Americans. There is also allegedly a video clip of a 2003 attack on a compound used by Westerners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and cassettes about insurgent attacks in Afghanistan. Canada has troops stationed in Afghanistan.
"(T)hey provide insights into the tactics, techniques and procedures by these insurgent groups," the documents allege. "They (also) provide time and place information regarding activities of key Al Qaeda and Taliban personalities who are presently at large and operating against coalition troops."
The seven-page affidavit by RCMP Sgt. Konrad Shourie, filed last month in the Ontario Court of Justice, provides rarely revealed details about the terrorism investigation.
The Khadr family has created its share of controversy. Khadr's father, Egyptian-born and Canadian citizen Ahmed Said Khadr, generated enough public pressure in 1996 to convince prime minister Jean Chrétien to intervene when he was facing charges in Pakistan in connection with the bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad. He died in a battle in Pakistan in October 2003. After the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks he was put on a list of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists. His family's connections to bin Laden were confirmed three years later with a documentary where his son, Abdurahman, admitted to growing up in an "Al Qaeda family."
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And all this time I thought that the detainees at Gitmo were unjustly accused, peace loving, Muslims.
RCMP? This has got to be a joke.
She should have been shot on sight.
mounties are scared of guns...eh
Again, there are no moderate muslims, the jihadists and the so called moderate muslims follow the same books.
I agree.......and all the other members of her family, wherever they may be.
This woman ought to be in custody. No wonder Canada is a safe haven for Islamic terrorists. Who's side is Canada on?
Sounds like this woman needs a cell of her own at Gitmo, while we get this matter sorted out.
amazing - apparently, the "first family" of terror is living out in the open in Canada, just a few miles from our border
Whats so funny about the RCMP? Aren't they for real coppers?
They carry Glocks (not lances) and have real cop cars!
For some reason, I think she is lying. /sarcasm
We need a picture of this sterling Canadian, for the next time she needs to be arrested.
hello people she said she bought it second hand - from an AlQueda dude of course because their family is part of Al Queda, maybe even prearranged so one of the brothers could use the info
she's just implicated herself again if you ask me
just the one brother turned mole for the CIA and he can stay in Canada the rest of the family can go back to Pakistan, if they love jihad so much go back to Pakistan
Allah is pleased when Muslims lie to infidels.
If the info on the computer is not hers then it would be okay to keep all of it and return to her her personal mail and a few jokes she saved. Better yet give the computer to America and just buy her a new one or allow her the money to buy one herself in Canada.
HUH!!??
Right. And Islam really is a religion of peace...the Islamofascists really do want peace with Israel....and they harbor no hatred for the US if we would only leave Iraq.
this does remind of when Danny Pearl and another guy from Wall Street Journal did buy an Al Queda laptop by accident
the other guy whose name escapes me had his laptop die in Kabul, right after the Taliban & Al Queda had fled and obviously many of the locals went and looted the Al Queda safe houses before the CIA or military could get there because they bought this laptop from some shady guy at the market
and then they were shocked what they found on the harddrive, a treasure trove of documents, by an Al Queda member who appeared to work under Ayman Al Zuwahiri because there were memos attributed to Ayman on the laptop
man that must have been fun to go through......
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