Canadian Citizen Among Most Wanted Al Qaeda
( Smooth move, Jean! )
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[ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Canadian citizen for whom Prime Minister Jean Chretien once went to bat is on a list of nine al Qaeda members most wanted by the United States, a list led by Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), the Washington Post reported in Wednesday's editions.
The list, circulated in recent days by an anti-Taliban militia in Jalalabad, named nine Arabs -- five Saudi-born and four Egyptian-born -- as the most wanted al Qaeda members, the Peshawar, Pakistan-datelined report said.
The final name was that of Ahmad Sa'id al-Kadr, or Abu Abdurrahman, 53, an Egyptian-born Canadian citizen who operated Afghanistan (news - web sites) operations of Human Concern International, a Canadian-headquartered charity, the Post said.
Kadr was detained by Pakistani police in connection with the Nov. 9, 1995, bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, the Post said.
``While he was in prison, Prime Minister Jean Chretien was on a state visit to Pakistan and raised Kadr's case with then-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Kadr was released a short time later and joined bin Laden in Afghanistan,'' the report said. ]
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