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RCMP allege clips of Bin Laden's voice on confiscated laptop
by Judi McLeod Wednesday, June 15, 2005
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Toronto, ON-- Zaynab Khadr claims she didnt know that terrorist Osama bin Laden would attend her wedding in Pakistan. Now the 25-year-old says she didnt know clips of bin Ladens 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.
Alleged to be among Khadrs RCMP-confiscated possessions are downloaded clips of bin Ladens voice and songsone entitled "I Am a Terrorist". On the laptop is also a video clip of a 2003 attack on a compound used by Westerners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and cassettes about insurgent attacks in Afghanistan. Canada, Khadrs adopted country has troops stationed in Afghanistan.
When a chador-clad Khadr quietly slipped back into Toronto on February 17, 2005, she said she had returned to Canada to lobby for the rights of her two brothers, 18-year-old Omar, who is Canadas only known detainee at Guatanamo Bay and her brother, Abdullah, whose whereabouts have been unknown since October, 2004.
Her father, the late Ahmed Said Khadr, officially identified as Canadas highest-ranking member of Al Qaeda, was sprung from a Pakistani prison when former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien successfully intervened on his behalf through then Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
With a longsuit for inflammatory, anti-American rhetoric, Zaybab Khadr told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 2004 that Americans "deserve to feel a pain similar to what they inflict on others."
When mainstream Canadians complained, Chrétiens successor Prime Minister Paul Martin reminded them that as a "Canadian citizen", Khadr had a right to her opinion.
The daughter of the patriarch of Canadas first family of terrorists plays down her association to the worlds number one terrorist, starting with his attendance at her wedding.
"I mean we dont even write invitations for weddings," Khadr told the Toronto Star in a sympathetic interview shortly after her return to Canada. "We just say theres a wedding and everybodys invited and everybody passes it on."
If bin Laden didnt get the brides wedding invitation in a buff coloured envelope, neither is anything found on her laptop except for personal pictures and a few "cartoons" really hers. The laptop, she says, was bought secondhand about seven months before coming to Canada.
"I think its my right to bring what I want since Im not breaking any laws, so I decided to bring them," she said. "Although I dont know whats on them, I still thought Id bring them."
Although the RCMP must go before a Toronto judge this Friday seeking permission to allow them to continue doing a forensic evaluation of the seized materials, Khadrs written records are being studied by the RCMPs behavioural sciences unit for a "psychological analysis" to determine if she is a "threat to society".
In reporter Michelle Shephards sympathetic Toronto Star interview last February, Khadrs personal email () with an invitation extended to Canadians objecting to her views was published by the Star.
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