>What does politically correct mean<
A state of tolerance. Manufactured by religous/minority lobbyists engendered to guarantee voting power for polititians..
Take a look at what Jean Chretien, the Candian Prime Mininster, did when under pressure form the Canadian Muslim Association:
RCMP fears return of family with terror links
Son accused of killing U.S. soldier in Afghanistan
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Stewart Bell
National Post
Saturday, October 05, 2002
The RCMP has opened a criminal investigation into a Canadian family in Afghanistan alleged to be deeply involved with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, the National Post has learned.
The government is concerned that members of the Khadr family may intend on returning home to Canada, and have assigned investigators to see if there are grounds to charge any of them under the counter-terrorism law enacted last year.
By acting now to compile the case, the RCMP may avoid what could prove an embarrassing scenario: Khadr family members disembark from an airplane at Toronto's Lester B. Pearson Airport, but authorities do not know what to do with them.
The investigation into the family, its charity work and financial dealings is being conducted by the RCMP's National Security Investigation section, which is responsible for terrorism-related criminal cases.
Ahmed Khadr, 54, an Egyptian-Canadian, is believed to be well connected to the bin Laden network. His Toronto-born son Omar, 16, is being held by U.S. forces in Afghanistan as an alleged al-Qaeda "enemy combatant."
The U.S. military says the youth took part in a July 27 shootout that left two dead and four wounded and that he later killed a U.S. soldier with a hand grenade. His brother Abdul, 19, was captured in Afghanistan by Northern Alliance forces last November and is being held in Kabul.
The elder Mr. Khadr is believed to be in Afghanistan or Pakistan, but his exact whereabouts remain a mystery. His daughter told the Post he was doing humanitarian work, but she did not know where.
Since the Khadrs are Canadian citizens, there is speculation they may attempt to return to Canada. But authorities are ill-prepared for the possibility. Should they return before the Crown has a case ready, the Khadrs might walk free.
However, law enforcement officials said they are running into a hurdle: The new counter-terrorism law, C-36, is not retroactive, so it can only be used to prosecute suspects for offences committed after it came into effect in December, 2001. Most of the Khadrs' known activities, however, predate the law.
Mr. Khadr, who uses the alias Al-Kanadi, Arabic for The Canadian, is believed to be the highest-ranking Canadian in the bin Laden organization. He has been identified by the United Nations as an associate of bin Laden, and the U.S. has placed him on a list of "wanted terrorists" or those "known to financially support terrorism."
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has said he used the Ottawa aid group Human Concern International to move money that financed a 1995 bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad that killed 17 people.
The computer engineer migrated to Canada in the 1970s and studied at the University of Ottawa before taking a job at Bell Northern Research, but he was drawn to the Pakistani border region by the war that erupted after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He went to Pakistan on behalf of Human Concern International, an aid agency that was then funded by the federal government. Since then, he and his wife and six children have travelled back and forth between Canada and troubled region.
After the embassy bombing in Islamabad, Mr. Khadr was arrested for allegedly financing the operation, attributed to Al Jihad, the Egyptian wing of al-Qaeda. But he was released shortly after Jean Chrétien, the Prime Minister, intervened in the case during a visit with Benazir Bhutto, then Pakistan's prime minister.
Mr. Khadr left his job at Human Concern and came back to Toronto with his family, but later returned to Afghanistan to continue his work under the banner of another charity, Health Education Project International, which was based at a Toronto-area mosque.
Local Muslims said the family would come to the mosque annually to raise money for their charitable work. More allegations about Mr. Khadr surfaced two years ago, when a suspected Egyptian terrorist named Mohamed Mahjoub was arrested in Toronto. Mr. Mahjoub, accused of being a high-ranking leader in the outlawed Vanguards of Conquest, admitted he knew Mr. Khadr and had lived with his in-laws after moving to Canada.
Last year, Mahmoud Jaballah, another accused Egyptian terrorist, was arrested in Toronto for alleged membership in Al Jihad, the same group behind the embassy bombing in Islamabad. He was also a friend of the Khadr family.
Mr. Khadr's family in Toronto insists he is innocent. "My son-in-law is a good man and nobody is good like him," his mother-in-law, Fatima Elsamnah of Scarborough, said last year. "Whatever the media say and the government say, I don't believe anything and this is lie."
Omar Khadr remains in U.S. custody at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has asked the U.S. State Department for permission to visit the teenager, and has also suggested he should be treated differently because of his age.
But the United States has declined Canada's requests and federal officials expect the youth will be transported to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where hundreds of captured al-Qaeda fighters are currently being held.
Mr. Khadr's family in Toronto insists he is innocent. "My son-in-law is a good man and nobody is good like him," his mother-in-law, Fatima Elsamnah of Scarborough, Ont., said last year. "Whatever the media say and the government say, I don't believe anything and this is lie."
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