On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:06:06 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote: >Case in point Canadian investigators who were questionoing >an Al-Qaeda prisoner in Gitmo referred to him only as a >Canadian and not as a Canadian of Moddle East descent.
Although most accounts do refer to Omar Khadr only as a Canadian there are a few that mention his Egyptian-Canadian ancestry: |Mr. Khadr's father was Ahmed Said Khadr, an Egyptian-Canadian |al-Qaeda lieutenant who brainwashed his family into the radicalized, |murderous version of Islam that he began embracing as a member |of the University of Ottawa Muslim Students Association in the late |1970s. http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=652568 There are a few other instances like this: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501020506-233999,00.html |This is how bad it was for terrorist-hunters before Sept. 11. |After weeks of dangerous surveillance work along the Afghan |border, Egyptian investigators finally tracked down their quarry, |a close associate of Osama bin Laden named Ahmed al-Khadir |who was wanted for bombing the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad |in 1995, killing 15 people. The Egyptians had surrounded the |safe house in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar where al-Khadir, |an Egyptian Canadian, was hiding. All that remained was to notify |Pakistan's then chief spymaster, General Mehmood Ahmed, so |that his spooks could burst in to arrest al-Khadir. Ahmed promised |swift action. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/831830.html |An Egyptian-Canadian man accused of spying for Israel repeated |his claims Wednesday that he was forced to confess while authorities |tortured him by electrocution and other extreme measures. Whether one finds mention of "hyphenated" citizens or not I guess depends upon where and how hard one looks for them. -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
