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Plans, tapes diaries seized at Pearson airport Zaynab Khadr denies they belong to her 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...

Abdullah Khadr, the eldest son of a reputed Canadian Al Qaeda financier, was arrested by the RCMP yesterday on terrorism-related charges at the request of American authorities. The 25-year-old Canadian recently returned from Pakistan where he was held for 14 months without charge. He was arrested last night after agreeing to meet an RCMP officer at a McDonald's near his Scarborough apartment, his relatives said last night. His mother, Maha Elsamnah tried to intervene in the arrest and was also taken into custody, but later released without charges. Khadr's brother, 22-year-old Abdurahman was also at the fast food restaurant and...

Zaynab Khadr claims she didn’t know that terrorist Osama bin Laden would attend her wedding in Pakistan. Now the 25-year-old says she didn’t know clips of bin Laden’s voice calling for the killing of Americans were on the laptop computer seized by the RCMP at Pearson airport when she returned to Canada last February.

America's norther neighbor continues to serve as a favorite operational base and transit country for terrorists. An American courtroom just witnessed the first conviction ever of a Canadian citizen in the War on Terror. Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, 21, originally from Kuwait, pleaded guilty to several charges of planning attacks against American interests outside the United States. The charges include conspiracy to kill US nationals, destroy US property abroad with weapons of mass destruction, kill American employees while on duty, and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. The WMD, in this case, was dynamite. According to Canadian newspapers, Jabarah was...

Influx of terrorists 'Jihadist returnees' may plan attacks, report says Stewart Bell National Post Monday, May 09, 2005 A number of "jihadist returnees" have arrived back in Canada from other countries and some may intend to commit acts of terrorism, according to a declassified intelligence report. The report, by the government's Integrated National Security Assessment Centre (INSAC), says "a number of other Islamic extremists have recently returned to Canada from abroad. "Those dedicated extremists possessing terrorist training and Canadian documentation may return to Canada in order to carry out an attack. "They may also use their documentation to gain...

DECORATED SOLDIER FIGHTING TO KEEP FROZEN CANADIAN FUNDS AND ASSETS FROM FAMILY OF AL QAEDA SUPPORTERS Utah Reservist Filing Suit in Federal District Court against High Ranking al Qaeda Operative Salt Lake City, UT. August 6, 2004. U.S. Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Layne Morris and Tabitha Speer, widow of Sgt. 1st Class Christopher J. Speer, have retained the Salt Lake City law firms of Winder & Haslam and Burbidge & Mitchell and the Toronto law firm of Houser, Henry & Syron as counsel in a suit claiming serious injuries, including the loss of his right eye, suffered by Sgt....

The suicide bomber who killed Canadian Forces Corporal Jamie Murphy of Conception Harbour, Nfld., was a Canadian citizen, the son of al-Qaeda operative Ahmed Said Khadr, according to a Taliban spokesman who spoke yesterday from Afghanistan. The spokesman suggested it was Abdullah Khadr who walked up to a Canadian patrol in Kabul on Jan. 27 and detonated a bomb. Abdullah is the eldest of four brothers and the only male member of the family who was not detained or shot as a terrorism suspect. The Taliban account is being treated with much skepticism by Ottawa officials, who said it is...

U.S. detains, kicks out two Canadian Muslims By COLIN FREEZE From Saturday's Globe and Mail UPDATED AT 2:39 AM EDT Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003 Two moderate Islamic scholars were kicked out of the United States and sent back to Canada last night, after U.S. authorities detained them as suspected terrorists when they landed in Florida on the anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. Ahmad Kutty, 59, and Abdool Hamid, 37, are Canadian citizens affiliated with the Islamic Centre of Canada in Mississauga, Ont. They were flying to Orlando to lead an Islamic prayer service, but were intercepted by immigration agents...

Canada bankrolled man's aid agency during that time U.S. authorities have tied a Canadian aid worker to the al-Qaeda terrorist network as far back as 1988, almost a decade before the Canadian government cut off funding to his Ottawa-based Muslim charity. Evidence unsealed by a U.S. judge in Chicago shows Ahmed Said Khadr had dealings with senior al-Qaeda leaders while being financed by the Canadian International Development Agency. Although CIDA stopped giving aid money to Mr. Khadr in 1997 after he was arrested for allegedly bombing an embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, the documents allege he was working with al-Qaeda long...

Canadian Alliance Leader Stephen Harper says his concerns about an Ontario teenager detained by the U.S. military in Afghanistan include wider questions about Canadian defence and security issues. The 15-year-old son of Ahmed Said Khadr, a Canadian citizen long suspected of being an al-Qaeda operative, is accused of involvement in a hours-long gunfight which killed a U.S. Special Forces medic last July. "We want to know more about that incident. First of all we want to find out how this happened," Mr. Harper said during the closing press conference of his party's caucus retreat in Barrie, Ont., Friday. For the...