June 15, 2005

What, Me Guilty? Mounties Nab al Qaeda Cache

Ok, every once and awhile you have to ignore our usual Blame Canada attitude and give our neighbors in the Great White North some credit where credit is due.

First this from The Toronto Star (via James Joyner):

The RCMP and Canadian military believe they've discovered a vital cache of information on Al Qaeda that includes the whereabouts of wanted members and details of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan.

The information is allegedly contained in a laptop, dozens of DVDs, audiocassettes and the pages of diaries, seized by the RCMP officers who met Zaynab Khadr at Pearson airport with a search warrant as she arrived back in Canada in February, court documents state.

Who is Zaynab Khadr? From The Toronto Free Press we learn that her family is good buddies with the bin Ladens. The bin Ladens throw the most fabulous dinner parties, dahling! Oh, and Osama just happened to show up at her wedding. How utterly inappropriate--he wasn't even dressed for the occasion:
Zaynab Khadr claims she didnÂ’t know that terrorist Osama bin Laden would attend her wedding in Pakistan....

"I mean we donÂ’t even write invitations for weddings," Khadr told the Toronto Star in a sympathetic interview shortly after her return to Canada. "We just say thereÂ’s a wedding and everybodyÂ’s invited and everybody passes it on."

And it was just a coincidence that she's been swapping Osama bin Laden MP3s for her iPod:
Now the 25-year-old says she didnÂ’t know clips of bin LadenÂ’s 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.
Hey, who doesn't have the latest bin Laden podcast?

And check out what else is on her computer. I mean, is it possible that she somehow broke into my office and swapped out my C drive? Cause, it's like a freakish coincidence that we have all the same files on our computer:

Alleged to be among Khadr’s RCMP-confiscated possessions are downloaded clips of bin Laden’s voice and songs–one 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, Khadr’s adopted country has troops stationed in Afghanistan.
Eeeerie.

Oh, and about all those innocent victims down there in Guantanomo. Yep, how could this not be an al Qaeda post without some sort of reference to Camp X-Ray?

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 CanadaÂ’s only known detainee at Guatanamo Bay and her brother, Abdullah, whose whereabouts have been unknown since October, 2004.
So, we have a Canadian chick with ties to Osama bin Laden trying to help her terrorist brother get out of Guantanamo? Sounds innocent to me!

Oh, and it's not just her brother. It seems jihadism runs in the family:

Her father, the late Ahmed Said Khadr, officially identified as CanadaÂ’s 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
Gotta love it when Canada intervenes on behalf of one of its fine outstanding citizens like that.

Oh, and just in case you want to e-mail Zaynab Khadr you can reach her at: zak79up@yahoo.ca

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