Sorry churchboy,
The so called bomber in this case was in his 40s. not a teen. But then, what
can you expect from that weekly world news site clone...
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1076022611013
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040206.wafgh0206/BNStory/International/?query=Khadr
http://www.canada.com/search/story.html?id=16fcc1bf-1c6d-4678-9827-90b6cefb5dd5
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1076083093338_8//
and many more.
Al
"TonyZ2001" <tonyz2001@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040206102935.28446.00001429@mb-m15.aol.com...
Canadian accused of suicide bombing
Father suspected of al-Qaida ties, brothers held at Guantanamo
Posted: February 6, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2004 WorldNetDaily.com
A Canadian family accused of having close ties to Osama bin Laden's
al-Qaida
terrorist network is in the news again with allegations by the Taliban
that
another son was involved in a deadly attack on a coalition soldier.
A Taliban spokesman claimed Abdullah Khadr of Toronto was the suicide
bomber
who killed Canadian Forces Corporal Jamie Murphy in Kabul Jan. 27, the
Toronto
Globe and Mail reported.
Khadr is the son of Ahmed Saeed Khadr, a Canadian citizen whom the U.S.
has
accused of having direct ties to bin Laden. He also is the brother of Omar
Khadr, who, as WorldNetDaily first reported exclusively, is accused of
killing
a U.S. Special Forces medic July 28.
Omar Khadr was held by the U.S. in the prison for terrorism suspects at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but was released because the U.S. had no charges and
believed he no longer was an intelligence asset.
A third brother, Abdurahman Khadr, also was held at Guantanamo. He
returned to
Canada shortly after his release in October.
Abdurahman Khadr admitted he had been trained at an "al-Qaida-related
camp" for
three months in 1998, but played down his family's suspected ties to bin
Laden.
"There's lots of organizations in Afghanistan that are connected to
al-Qaida,
but are different," Khadr said in Toronto last December, according to
Reuters.
"It's not training to kill Americans, it's just training to go and fight
against the Northern Alliance."
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 Toronto paper
said
yesterday.
Members of his family deny he is a suicide bomber, and Canadian officials
believe the Taliban claim could be misinformation.
Members of the Khadr family described Abdullah, 23, as a "good boy" who is
stuck in Pakistan and wanting to return to Canada.
The Globe and Mail reported, however, investigators are trying to match
the
bomber's DNA with Abdullah's father, who was killed by Pakistani
counterterrorism agents in October.
The Taliban spokesman, who identified himself as Mohammed Saiful Adel,
told
Agence France-Presse the bomber was "Mohammed Abdullah," the child of a
Canadian citizen from Egypt and the brother of a young man held by the
U.S.
Army in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The spokesman described the father as a "fighter during the jihad [holy
war]
against the Soviets," who "spent a large part of his life in Pakistan and
in
Afghanistan" and was "killed during a recent operation by the Pakistan
army
against the village of Angoor Adda."
Those details match what is known about the family, the Globe and Mail
said.
Abdullah's grandmother, Fatmah Elsamnah, strongly denied intelligence
reports
that Abdullah was a commander of a training camp.
"Abdullah was trying to come home, and that's it," she told the Toronto
daily.
"This news upsets me very much because Abdullah is a good boy and nobody
has
helped him - even his government."
The Khadr family's relationship with the government was an embarrassment
to
former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who once intervened on
behalf of
the father.
The father was arrested in 1995 in connection with a bomb at the Egyptian
embassy in Islamabad - a suicide attack that killed 17. According to the
Ottawa Citizen, a Canadian Security Intelligence Service report says Khadr
is
"alleged to have moved ... money through" Human Concern International, a
Canadian relief agency, "from Afghanistan to Pakistan to pay for the
operation."
Chretien pressed then-Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto during a
trade
mission to give Khadr due process in Canada.
The U.S. and Canada sparred over the fate of Omar Khadr, 15 at the time of
the
killing. He previously was held at the U.S. military headquarters in
Bagram,
Afghanistan, north of the capital city of Kabul.
The Canadian government had been pressuring Washington for the return of
its
citizen, while the U.S. government continued to grill Khadr on the death
of
Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, 28. Khadr sustained serious injuries in
the
altercation with the medic.
.
