The comments were made 13 years ago, but for many Canadians they continue to define Zaynab Khadr, and by extension much of her ill-famed family. In interviews with the National Post and others, the Ottawa-born daughter of an alleged al Qaeda insider spoke with jarring ambivalence about the 9/11 attacks. But those incendiary 2004 remarks — and other facets of her extraordinary life — are again coming to the fore, as brother Omar Khadr asks a court to loosen his bail, in part so he can have unencumbered communications with his sister and mother. The 38-year-old sibling – now living in Sudan with her fourth husband and four children — was herself accused by the RCMP of aiding al Qaeda, though never charged with anything. The family was living in an al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan when 9/11 and its aftermath threw them into turmoil.

Source: National Post August 28, 2017 23:37 UTC