Mahmoud Jaballah
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Mahmoud Jaballah (Arabic: محمود جاء بالله ) is an Egyptian, held, without charge, on a controversial Canadian "security certificate", since August 2001.[1]
Jaballah, a father of six, said he had been a biology teacher prior to his incarceration.
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[edit] Relationship with Ahmed Said Khadr
Jaballah has described his relationship with Ahmed Said Khadr as "casual"[citation needed], stating that his wife had gone grocery shopping with Khadr's mother-in-law, and he had thus invited Khadr into his house for fifteen minutes, while the two drank tea and discussed their respective relief work in Peshawar, Pakistan. Jaballah has said that he never met Khadr while in Peshawar, though Khadr's sons Abdullah and Abdurahman have said that they had seen Jaballah around Peshawar and knew him as an Arabic tutor in the city who went by the patronymic Abu Ahmed.[2][3]
He said his wife had bought the Khadr family groceries, when Khadr came to Canada as a refugee. He said he met Khadr when he dropped by to pick up items being given to his family during a period of time when Khadr's family was in need. And, consistent with Muslim charity, he offered Khadr some tea. He said Khadr only stayed about fifteen minutes.[1][4]
[edit] Relationship with Mustafa Krer
Jaballah and Mustafa Krer met through mutual friends, and Jaballah has said that he phoned Krer for helping finding Egyptian newspaper articles he felt could help his refugee claim, and that Krer occasionally visited Jaballah in Toronto. The only time they met in Montreal was when Krer met Jaballah and his wife at Hassan Farhat's apartment to celebrate the birth of a child.[5]
[edit] Suspicious pattern of travel
The Toronto Star reports:
- "A CSIS summary of evidence says Mahmoud Jaballah’s alleged travel pattern in the early 1990s was consistent with those of an Islamic mujahedeen extremist, and accuses him of fighting alongside terrorists in Afghanistan and Chechnya.[4]"
Jaballah denied ever traveling to Afghanistan or Chechnya.[6] He acknowledged living in Pakistan between 1991 and 1994, where he was first a school teacher and then a school principal, in schools run by the International Islamic Relief Organization. The United States classifies the International Islamic Relief Organization as an organization that has ties to terrorism. (Its branches in the Philippines and Indonesia have been banned worldwide by the United Nations Security Council Committee 1267 for their affiliation with al-Qaeda.[7])
[edit] Prior detentions
Jaballah had been held on a Canadian security certificate in 1999. And he had been detained seven times in Egypt. One of his detentions was due to a charge that he participated in an assassination attempt on an Egyptian Minister. Jaballah was cleared of that charge when he was able to show he was in detention at the time of the attempt.
Jaballah attributes Canadian security official's suspicion to accepting tainted intelligence from Egyptian security officials.
[edit] House arrest
On 14 April 2007 Jaballah was taken under escort from a prison in Kingston to his home in Toronto, and placed under a severe form of house arrest. His wife and several of his six children are now responsible for enforcing the judge's limits on his movements.[8]
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Met top al-Qaeda figure just for tea, Egyptian says, Globe and Mail, May 26, 2006
- ^ Bell, Stewart. National Post, "'A lot' of Canadians in al-Qaeda", August 1, 2004
- ^ Freeze, Colin. Globe and Mail, "I only buy and sell weapons for al-Qaeda", November 3 2006
- ^ a b Jaballah denies terrorist training, Toronto Star', May 18, 2006
- ^ Hanes, Allison. National Post, "Jaballah claims purely innocent dealings with other terror suspects, July 12 2006
- ^ Jaballah admits he knew Khadr, canada.com, May 19, 2006
- ^ UN list of affiliates of al-Qaeda and the Taliban
- ^ Judge frees 'senior' terrorism suspect, Globe and Mail, 14 April 2007
