Khalid Abdullah (Egyptian)

A Sudanese-Egyptian, Khalid Abdullah was the fiancee of Canadian Zaynab Khadr, and a suspect in the 1996 attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan.

In July 1995, Ahmed Khadr arranged for his daughter Zaynab to marry Abdullah in December, [Center for Strategic and International Studies, [http://www.csis.org/media/csis/events/020404_terrorism.pdf Terrorism, Border Reform and Canada-United States Relations] , April 4, 2002] . Her mother Maha Elsamnah began preparing an apartment for the couple in the family's house, and Abdullah lived with the family for two months, "like a trial engagement".Stackhouse, John. Globe and Mail, "Canadian sought for questioning in car bombing", September 5, 1998] Shephard, Michelle. "Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr". New York:John Wiley & Sons, 2008. ISBN 0470841176.]

Abdullah was 26 at the time of the bombing, and was believed to have purchased one of the trucks used in the attack.cite news
url=http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/11128331/follow_omar_khadr_from_an_al_qaeda_childhood_to_a_gitmo_cell/3
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He re-surfaced in Tehran in October 1997, and contacted the Khadr family to try and re-schedule the wedding he had missed. Ahmed agreed to bring his family on a long vacation culminating in the city for a farewell to the reluctant Zaynab as she started a new life with Abdullah.

Six months after the couple began living in a rented Tehran apartment, Abdullah phoned his father-in-law to report that Zaynab was inconsolable at being separated from her family, and the marriage wasn't working out. She returned to live with her family.

In 1999, he was arrested in Pakistan, and was one of hundreds extradited to the Egyptian Returnees from Albania tribunal. He was sentenced to a lengthy prison term. [, Interview of (UNK) Khadr, Omar Ahmed, February 24 2003]

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