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“The Arabs have X’d me out,” said 21-year old Abdurahman Khadr in an interview last week. “My family hates me now and my sister sent an e-mail saying I was a [expletive] liar. My grandmother doesn’t want anything to do with me. Some people love me. Others hate my guts.” What Khadr has done to elicit such an emotional response could be the stuff of bad Hollywood movies. Having spent much of his youth with his family living in the same camp as Osama bin Laden (his father was a close associate), Khadr reluctantly trained with al-Qaida to be a suicide bomber before switching sides after the fall of the Taliban and working for the CIA as an undercover operative in Guantanamo and Bosnia. He also detailed life in the detention camps of Guantanamo, where he was sent by the CIA to spy on fellow detainees. There, conditions were so intolerable that he almost committed suicide and begged his handlers to let him go, which they eventually did. Khadr revealed all in a Canadian documentary which the CIA and others have no comment on. “I did something nobody has done until this day,” he said. “Being the son of an al-Qaida personality, and then coming back to oppose al-Qaida, and then opposing the CIA… and then coming back here and telling the world what I did.” Khadr’s story – which some doubt because no government agency will confirm it – places him at the Afghanistan camps that were rocketed in 1998, at weddings attended by Osama bin Laden, and among excited al-Qaida jihadis watching footage of the falling World Trade Center in 2001. Now back in Canada, he is looking for a place to live after being kicked out of his family’s house. There are already rumors that Hollywood will come knocking to bring his Forrest Gump-like life to the big screen, but who knows? Stranger things have happened to Abdurahman Khadr.
Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.
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