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Born in Kuwait, Amro Badr Abou el-Maati (عمرو بدر ابوالمعاطي) (or Amer el-Maati) is a Canadian citizen who the United States has alleged is a member of Al-Qaeda who attended flight school and discussed hijacking a Canadian plane to fly into American buildings.〔 He has been referred to as "Canada's most wanted terrorist".〔 His brother was one of a number of Canadians illegally renditioned to Syria to face torture in the years following the September 11 attacks, ostensibly because of interest in Amer, although officials would never give any reason for their sudden interest and accusations against el-Maati.〔Edmonton Journal, "FBI won't explain sudden interest in terrorism suspect", November 13, 2002〕 The case against Amer appears to consist of documents addressed to him being found in an office used by al-Qaeda, although the reporter who found them insisted it was possible they had been stolen by the militant group to commit identity theft. Since then, his brother has questioned whether the false confessions he gave under torture played any role in Amer's continued branding as a "terrorist", despite the fact neither Canada nor the United States seem to have even issued an arrest warrant for him.〔 His father has protested the vilification of both his sons, claiming they were being used by the Department of Homeland Security to keep fear and suspicion high in the United States, particularly against Canadian-Arabs.〔CTV News, (Father claims his son is innocent )〕 His opinions were echoed by Toronto cleric, Aly Hindy, who has known the family for years and claimed that the FBI's announcement was "laughable".〔 ==Early life== The family moved to Beirut, and both Amer and his brother were enrolled in a Catholic school.〔 Amer immigrated to Montreal in 1981 with his father and brother, until his mother and sister arrived and the family moved to Toronto where he attended high school, before returning to Montreal for University.〔Pither, Kerry. "Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror", 2008.〕〔 According to the interrogation of Abdullah Khadr in Pakistan, el-Maati had worked as a carpet salesman after the Mujahideen had denied him a pension due to his 1992 brain injury following a car accident which prevented him from participating in long treks.〔 In 1996, Amer travelled to Surobi, to find his younger brother who had spent four years fighting alongside Gulbuddin Hekmatyar against the Taliban.〔 The pair retreated north with Hekmatyar's forces, and then Ahmad went to Tehran to visit their mother and sister, while Amer traveled to Peshawar where he began working for the NGO ''Health and Education Projects International'', created by Ahmed Khadr.〔 In 1998 he obtained a Canadian passport while living in Pakistan.〔 Khadr's son Abdurahman testified in Montreal in the summer of 2004 that el-Maati had given his Canadian passport to a man known as ''Idriss''.〔Freeze, Colin, Globe and Mail, "Canadians' ties with Chechen insurgents probed", October 16, 2004〕 His family claims to have last seen him in 1999, and to have received only a single e-Mail from him the following year,〔 showing photographs of the school where he was working for the Canadian Relief Foundation.〔 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「Amer el-Maati」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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