{"id":1879,"date":"2004-03-17T02:11:36","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T07:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2004-03-17T02:11:36","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T07:11:36","slug":"abdurahman_khadr_from_osama_disciple_to_cia_operative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2004\/03\/abdurahman_khadr_from_osama_disciple_to_cia_operative\/","title":{"rendered":": Abdurahman Khadr: From Osama Disciple To CIA Operative"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altmuslim.com\/ee_images\/guantanamo_khadr.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u201cThe Arabs have X\u2019d me out,\u201d said 21-year old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Farticles%2FA41571-2004Mar8.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Abdurahman Khadr<\/a> in an interview last week. \u201cMy family hates me now and my sister sent an e-mail saying I was a [expletive] liar.  My grandmother doesn\u2019t want anything to do with me. Some people love me. Others hate my guts.\u201d  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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com%2Fedmonton%2Fedmontonjournal%2Fnews%2Fstory.html%3Fid%3D43403bbb-1305-4305-af16-fffbfc083cc8\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">his family<\/a> living in the same camp as Osama bin Laden (his father was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com%2FNASApp%2Fcs%2FContentServer%3Fpagename%3Dthestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1%26c%3DArticle%26cid%3D1078355412024%26call_pageid%3D968332188854%26col%3D968350060724\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">close associate<\/a>), 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fsouth_asia%2F3514442.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">detailed life<\/a> 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.   \u201cI did something nobody has done until this day,\u201d he said. \u201cBeing the son of an al-Qaida personality, and then coming back to oppose al-Qaida, and then <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net%2FNR%2Fexeres%2FC24226B1-9B3A-4677-995E-1A8ABA86624C.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">opposing the CIA<\/a>\u2026 and then coming back here and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2FArticleNews%2FTPStory%2FLAC%2F20040313%2FKHADR13%2FTPNational%2FCanada\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">telling the world<\/a> what I did.\u201d  Khadr\u2019s story \u2013 which some doubt because no government agency will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2Fnewsitems%2Fs1060367.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">confirm it<\/a> \u2013 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\u2019s house.  There are already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com%2FNASApp%2Fcs%2FContentServer%3Fpagename%3Dthestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1%26c%3DArticle%26cid%3D1078745650126%26call_pageid%3D968256290204%26col%3D968350116795\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">rumors<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shahed Amanullah is editor-in-chief of altmuslim.com.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He trained with bin Laden in Afghanistan, then worked for the CIA in Guantanamo. 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