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| 2005-12-18 |
| Son of Accused al-Qaida Financier Arrested TORONTO (AP) -- Royal Canadian Mounted Police said they have arrested the eldest son of an accused al-Qaida financier on a warrant issued by the United States. RCMP spokeswoman Corporal Michele Paradis said the warrant for Abdullah Khadr was issued by the U.S. Department of Justice. He was arrested on Saturday and is being held in a Toronto jail. Paradis would not say what the charges are. But the suspect's lawyer, Dennis Edney, told the Globe and Mail.com that his client faces extradition to the U.S. for allegedly planning to kill U.S. soldiers abroad.Calls to Edney's office were not immediately returned. Khadr, a 23-year-old, who had just returned to Canada after being detained for more than a year in Pakistan, was arrested at his family's apartment in Toronto, Edney was quoted as saying. Khadr is the eldest son of Egyptian-born Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr, an accused al-Qaida financier who was killed in a battle with Pakistani forces in 2003. Each of the four siblings in the family has separately been jailed and accused of links to terrorism. |
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