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04-09-2004, 02:44 PM
OTTAWA - Two members of a Canadian family with admitted links to al-Qaeda are expected back in Toronto from Pakistan on Friday.
To allow them to travel, the Canadian government granted emergency passports to Maha Elsamnah Khadr and her 14-year-old son Omar Karim.
Omar Karim was paralysed in a shootout with Pakistani troops during a raid against an al-Qaeda stronghold along the Afghanistan border in the fall of 2003. His father, suspected al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Said Khadr, was killed in the raid
The Khadr family has admitted to spending time with Osama bin Laden at a training camp in Afghanistan.
Abdurahman Khadr, 21, has been fighting in Canada to have his mother and injured brother returned from Pakistan for medical treatment.
The elder Khadr's widow and daughter have told CBC News they supported him and see him as a martyr.
They have been trying for months to get Canadian travel documents so they could to return to Canada. Ottawa has been reluctant to grant their requests because the Khadr family has lost several passports.
Conservative foreign affairs critic Stockwell Day expressed outrage that Ottawa issued the emergency passports to Khadr family members.
"They've been involved with the worst terrorist killer … of innocent people around the world, which is Osama bin Laden and now we're putting them in business class, bringing them here to Canada for the whole world to see," he said.
The Foreign Affairs Department said it loaned the money to the family and expects to be paid back. (From CBC.ca)
that makes me sad knowin our goverment is HELPing terriosts
To allow them to travel, the Canadian government granted emergency passports to Maha Elsamnah Khadr and her 14-year-old son Omar Karim.
Omar Karim was paralysed in a shootout with Pakistani troops during a raid against an al-Qaeda stronghold along the Afghanistan border in the fall of 2003. His father, suspected al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Said Khadr, was killed in the raid
The Khadr family has admitted to spending time with Osama bin Laden at a training camp in Afghanistan.
Abdurahman Khadr, 21, has been fighting in Canada to have his mother and injured brother returned from Pakistan for medical treatment.
The elder Khadr's widow and daughter have told CBC News they supported him and see him as a martyr.
They have been trying for months to get Canadian travel documents so they could to return to Canada. Ottawa has been reluctant to grant their requests because the Khadr family has lost several passports.
Conservative foreign affairs critic Stockwell Day expressed outrage that Ottawa issued the emergency passports to Khadr family members.
"They've been involved with the worst terrorist killer … of innocent people around the world, which is Osama bin Laden and now we're putting them in business class, bringing them here to Canada for the whole world to see," he said.
The Foreign Affairs Department said it loaned the money to the family and expects to be paid back. (From CBC.ca)
that makes me sad knowin our goverment is HELPing terriosts