A recent show by the CBC Television network gave us a remarkable insight into the mind of Al Qaeda terrorists. According to Abdurahman Khadr, he worked for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to aid in identifying Al Qaeda members at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Apparently Abdurahman was released from U.S. detention at Guantanamo in return for leading U.S. intelligence forces to his father and associates and offered this portrait of the Khadrs:
- They were an Al Qaeda family whose children were born in Canada but grew up in training camps in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden was counted as a close personal friend.
Dying for a cause is the most direct route to heaven and, according to at least one family member, the Sept. 11 attacks gave the Americans what "they deserve." These were the frank statements made by the relatives of Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr in last night's documentary.
They are the latest revelations of a former Scarborough family, who moved to Pakistan to apparently do charity work, and the first direct admission that Khadr, his wife, daughter and four sons supported Al Qaeda.
"(My father) respected (bin Laden) for a person who is standing up for something he believes in, who's willing to sacrifice for it, who's doing a lot of good for people who are helping him," Khadr's daughter Zaynab told the CBC.
CBC producer Nazim Baksh and reporter Terence McKenna spent two months interviewing the family members here and abroad. The CBC crew also interviewed the eldest Khadr son, Abdullah, 23, still in hiding in Pakistan and mistakenly fingered by the Taliban as the suicide bomber who killed a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan on Jan. 27.
The documentary shed greater light on bin Laden - a man who enjoyed playing volleyball and going horseback riding. "I see him as a very peaceful man," Abdullah said.
And it further revealed that Ahmed Said Khadr, an Egyptian-born Canadian citizen, was so committed to the cause of terrorism that he would sacrifice his own son. "Three times my father himself tried to convince me to become a suicide bomber," Abdurahman said. But he refused. "I don't believe in blowing myself up and killing innocent people.
Article comments
1 - mike
When I was in Canada recently, I met a lot of terrorists. Most Canadians supported bin laden and enjoyed cheering as they watched pictures of 9/11.
This is why most Canadians were opposed to the war in Iraq. They understood that if they could stop the war, they would allow Islamo-fascists to grow in strength.
Recently, Prime Minister Paul Martin held a news conference in which he invited al-Quada cells to set up training camps in Canada so they could launch strikes against America.
Most Canadian women wear the burqua. Almost all Canadian men are homosexuals who marry each other and smoke pot in the streets. Children are forced into prostitution at an early age.
Thank God more and more Americans are finally seeing the light about these horrible people.
2 - Jim Carruthers
Geez, mike, if that is your real name, you are such a tool.
Abdurahman spent most of his life in Afghanistan, not Canada.
No wonder we hold most 'murrican hicks in distain, you really _are_ arrogant inbred jerks.
3 - mike
I was joking! I was just characterizing the nimrod attitude of so many of my fellow Americans about Canada. I love Canada. I hope to move there. No offense!
4 - Jim Carruthers
Mike, fergetit, you can't move here. We already have enough growop attendants. And the people at the corner store say the last thing we need is Yanks coming in to steal their low wage jobs.
I think we need to build a fence to keep the yankbaggers out.
5 - mike
But liberals and lefties need a waiver. We're not like other Americans. We're basically just Canadians stuck in a big right wing concentration camp. I'll be a good Canadian. I promise. Save me! Help!
6 - BB
Actually in all fairness to Mike I thought it was one of his better attempts at satire.
Right Mike?
7 - Shark
"Dying for a cause is the most direct route to heaven...
I think we should do everything we can to accomdate 'em.
8 - shaun
Shark, seems you hate arabs as much as i hate jews. You worthless bastard. I feel sorry for your mother
9 - RJ Elliott
Canadians make great hockey players. Thats about it.
10 - BB
Oh really? Or should I say Oh Canada!
11 - Jim Carruthers
And we have a really good time making hockey players. I know whenever I have relations, the front of mind issue is, am I helping to make a hockey player. However, so far Gretsky has exceeded my grasp.
What I really wanted to address is the slur that these people are Canadians. They aren't, they are Egyptian who have used Canada as a safe harbour, just like the anti-Castro forces use Miami for their home base.
12 - Betsy
HAte HAte Hate, thats all you hear in any chat room. Everybody hates everybody. What you all forget is the Good Lord has put us all on this earth to love one another. No one keeps the ten commandments anymore. If we all got back to Gods rule we'd all be better off.The sick fools that participated on 911 will get thiers. They are all sick minded, ignorant fools who cant think for themselves, thats why they are so taken with the evil one himself(Bin Laden) The devil
incarnate.Any of you who laughted at the news on 911, the real true God will deal with you. The time is coming when you will find out that dying isn't as glamorus as you think, there is an after life and you wont be spending it with a bunch of abliging women. You'll be suffering seven fold any pain and heart ache you afficked to others here on earth.May Yawey, Jesus and the Holy Sprit bless us all, and make you Al Qaeda freeks suffer as you shuld. Rot in Hell Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
PS Canada if you dont like the USA then stay over there, we wish you would put up your fence.The USA is the best country in the world !!!! Proud to be an American Still!!!!