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Ahmed Said Khadr (Arabic: أحمد سعيد خضر) (March 1, 1948 – October 2, 2003) was an Egyptian citizen who had ties to a number of militant and Mujahideen leaders in Afghanistan, including Osama bin Laden, founder of al-Qaeda. He was accused of being a "senior associate" and financier of al-Qaeda, but his family insisted he maintained the contacts to help his charity work.〔Thorne, Stephen. ''Canadian Press,'' "Pakistan to release wounded Cdn", January 26, 2004〕〔Michael Friscolanti. Macleans, "(The house of Khadr ), August 4, 2006〕 Khadr worked with a number of charitable non-governmental organizations that served Afghan refugees and set up agricultural projects.〔 He set up two orphanages for children whose parents had been killed in the Soviet invasion of the 1980s. He funded the construction of Makkah Mukarama Hospital in Afghanistan with his own savings,〔Bell, Stewart. ''National Post,'' "FBI hunts for 'The Canadian': Former Ottawa man appears on primary list of suspected bin Laden associates", October 10, 2001〕〔(Review of ''Book of 120 Martyrs in Afghanistan'' )〕〔Bell, Stewart. ''National Post,'' "Khadrs Reveal Bin Laden Ties", January 24, 2004〕 as well as seven medical clinics in the refugee camps of Pakistan.〔 Due to his prominent regional role, Khadr also helped negotiate peaceful compromises between rival warlords, power brokers and leaders.〔〔Berger, J. M. Intelwire.com. ("Al Qaeda Figures Lurk in Shadows Around Toronto Terror Cell" ), June 3, 2006〕 The Canadian government had considered him the country's highest-ranking member of al-Qaeda,〔("RCMP allege clips of Bin Laden's voice on confiscated laptop" ), ''Canada Free Press'', June 15, 2005〕 and in 1999, the United Kingdom had his name added to a United Nations list of al-Qaeda members.〔("Indepth: Khadr" ), CBC News〕 The Canadian attorney Dennis Edney, the lawyer for the Khadr family, has challenged the assumption that Khadr was a member of al-Qaeda, saying in 2001 that he was "really interested in obtaining one piece of evidence that would show indeed that Mr. Khadr was actually a terrorist. To me, it's just folklore."〔 Khadr's imam in Canada, Ali Hindy, spoke after his death, saying "I don't think that he was al-Qaeda, but I think he felt that now he became part of Afghanistan."〔 His friends described him as being "proud of (a ) Canadian citizen",〔 while politicians and media have suggested that he disliked the country.〔 Two of his sons were captured separately by United States forces in Afghanistan in 2002, after their invasion the previous fall following the 9/11 attacks. The sons were detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Captured at the age of 15, among the youngest detainees at the camp, and the last Western citizen to be held there, Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to charges of war crimes in October 2010 in a plea agreement. He was repatriated to Canada in 2013 to serve the remainder of his sentence. Khadr was killed on October 2, 2003, along with al-Qaeda and Taliban members, in a shootout by Pakistani security forces near the Afghanistan border. Following his death, his family members moved back to Canada where they remain today.〔 ==Early life== Born in Egypt to Mohamed Zaki Khadr and Munira Osman, Khadr later delighted in telling how his father had been asked by Munira's father to investigate a potential suitor. He had reported back that the man seemed unsuitable. Khadr was subsequently invited to a dinner with the family, as a show of the father's appreciation, and fell in love with Munira.〔 Raised in Shubra El-Kheima, Khadr was a shy child with a speech impediment. He frequently stayed at the house of his much older half-brother Ahmed Fouad.〔 When Fouad left for the United States in the 1970s, Khadr asked his father if he could follow – but was forbidden. Planning the move behind his father's back, Khadr moved to Montreal, Canada in 1975.〔 After a few months in Montreal, Khadr moved to Toronto, before being accepted at the University of Ottawa to study Computer Programming. It was in Ottawa that he met Qasem Mahmud, the founder of ''Camp Al-Mu-Mee-Neen'' in Creemore, Ontario. Anxious to settle down and begin a family, the secular 29-year-old volunteered to help at the camp. There he met Maha el-Samnah, who was impressed by his calmness and thought he was a good listener. Mahmud later described their meeting as "love at first sight".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ahmed Khadr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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