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. Why didn t you guys attack a nuclear site? and his answerwas, Oh, nuclear sites are outside cities. And he s like, If we blow oneup, everybody who s security there will die and that s it. But why didyou attack this? Is it right you killed so many people? He s like, Wedidn t intend to target the people.We intended to target the economy.One of the famous explanations of September 11 is these people paytaxes, the taxes go to the government, the government puts it into thearmy, the army gives it to the Israelis and they kill Muslims.You know,that long chain of explanation. 72 Flight or FightKhadr and Elsamnah had been happier during their two years in Kabulthan they had ever been.Khadr was delighted to finally be living in anIslamic state ruled by Sharia law, even if he did sometimes clash with theTaliban over such issues as wanting his daughters to get an educationor that he allowed his sons to watch Hollywood movies.Elsamnah wascontent just to have a house and stay in one place.They lived in a neighborhood called Karti Parwan, in an expansivehome with nine bedrooms and five washrooms.The children spent theirdays playing with neighborhood children or watching action movies inthe basement where they could get some reprieve from the heat.Omarwas especially fond of the house s balcony where he could climb to the topof a fig tree, trying to avoid the leaves that irritated his arms, and collecthandfuls of the fruit.The children shared their home with many pets two cats, hedgehogsand a slow-moving turtle.The Taliban banned pets, believing dogsespecially impure, but the Khadr children always managed to find straypuppies and sneak them home.Even when their father found them, heusually didn t have the heart to throw them back on the street.The onlyanimal he ever turned away was a black dog found in Jalalabad, telling thechildren that a pure black animal was evil.Zaynab lived in a separate wing of the house with her second husband,a Yemeni known as Yacoub al Bahr, whose real name is believed to beSameer Saif.She had met al Bahr after her family relocated to Kabul.He had fought with the mujahideen in Bosnia but was just a few yearsolder than Zaynab and not particularly hailed for his fighting skills.Itwas his voice that made him popular in Afghanistan and al Bahr wasinformally known as Kabul s wedding singer.Zaynab wasn t interested inhim, but agreed to the marriage since she could remain with her family,living in a separate wing of the house.Khadr asked his sons what theythought of al Bahr and allowed them to vote before giving final consentto the marriage.Abdurahman, who had never been close with Zaynab,said he wanted al Bahr as part of the family.Kareem liked him, too.ButAbdullah and Omar said they didn t want to vote and privately Omartold Zaynab he didn t want her to marry but didn t want to upset hisfather by saying so.On the day of her wedding in 1999, Zaynab and the women celebratedseparately while the men gathered in Kabul.The ceremony was huge andlasted well into the night.Khadr, the beaming father of the bride, basked73 GUANTANAMO S CHILDin the attention from Afghanistan s elite which included Zawahiri and binLaden.Al Bahr sang one song after another until one of the guests snuck upbehind him and fired an AK-47 into the air.The sound startled al Bahrand his voice cracked mid-song, sending the guests into fits of laughter.Like Zaynab s previous marriage, this one was also fraught withproblems.Her strong will irritated her Yemeni husband, who wasn taccustomed to having women talk back to him, let alone start loud andlengthy debates.Shortly after they married, Zaynab became pregnant withthe first Khadr grandchild.Zaynab returned to her grandparents Scarborough home with hermother in 2000, so the baby could be born in Canada.Instead of letters,Khadr recorded messages on cassettes that he would send to his wife anddaughter, talking about the children and saying how much he missedthem.Omar, Khadr said, was looking after the entire family. Omar is ourmother and our father, our sister and our brother.He cooks our meals anddoes our laundry.Sometimes, I ask your mother, Are you sure he s ours?He s too good to be ours. Zaynab gave birth to a daughter she named Safia, and a few monthslater returned to Kabul.But when Zaynab proudly introduced Safia toa neighbor who had trained as a nurse, she was told Safia s head wasn tforming correctly.The neighbor was Australian Rabiyah Hutchinson, and amongthe foreigners in Kabul, Hutchinson s medical knowledge was revered.Hutchinson had taken a long and circuitous route to Kabul.A Muslimconvert of Scottish heritage, Hutchinson, was on her third marriage.Her second marriage had been to a follower of the Jemaah Islamiyah, anIndonesian group tied to al Qaeda, which claimed responsibility for the2003 Bali bombing that killed 202, including eighty-eight Australians.While living in Afghanistan, Hutchinson met her third husband, EgyptianMustafa Hamid, also known as Abu al Walid al Masri.At first, Zaynab dismissed Hutchinson s comments. All the Khadrshave big heads, she replied, but she took Safia to a local doctor anyway.Safia was eventually diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a conditioncommonly referred to as water on the brain and involves an abnormalaccumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the head s ventricles, causing pressureinside the skull that can lead to convulsions and mental retardation.Although the disease was rare, one of bin Laden s sons had also suffered from74 Flight or Fighthydrocephalus and bin Laden had taken the boy to the United Kingdomin the late 1970s for treatment.Doctors told him the baby would need tohave a shunt inserted to relieve the pressure, but bin Laden wouldn t letthem operate.He took the boy home to Saudi Arabia where he tried totreat him by smearing honey on his head.The boy survived, but as he grewolder was mentally delayed and had trouble interacting socially.Zaynab did not object to having Safia treated but wanted to take herback to Canada to have an operation.Her husband insisted they go toa hospital in Lahore instead.Another fight followed. He didn t like itbecause he felt we were imposing our opinion and our background onhim, Elsamnah said.When they took six-month-old Safia to Canada overhis objections, al Bahr moved out.After 9/11, Khadr ran into al Bahr inKabul and gave him an ultimatum: Divorce her, or stay married andcome back, but don t leave her hanging. Al Bahr consented to a divorceon the condition that Zaynab write a statement saying she would neverrequest anything from him.She quickly complied.Most of al Qaeda s inner circle moved to a compound outside Kandaharin 1997, after leaving Najm al Jihad [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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. Why didn t you guys attack a nuclear site? and his answerwas, Oh, nuclear sites are outside cities. And he s like, If we blow oneup, everybody who s security there will die and that s it. But why didyou attack this? Is it right you killed so many people? He s like, Wedidn t intend to target the people.We intended to target the economy.One of the famous explanations of September 11 is these people paytaxes, the taxes go to the government, the government puts it into thearmy, the army gives it to the Israelis and they kill Muslims.You know,that long chain of explanation. 72 Flight or FightKhadr and Elsamnah had been happier during their two years in Kabulthan they had ever been.Khadr was delighted to finally be living in anIslamic state ruled by Sharia law, even if he did sometimes clash with theTaliban over such issues as wanting his daughters to get an educationor that he allowed his sons to watch Hollywood movies.Elsamnah wascontent just to have a house and stay in one place.They lived in a neighborhood called Karti Parwan, in an expansivehome with nine bedrooms and five washrooms.The children spent theirdays playing with neighborhood children or watching action movies inthe basement where they could get some reprieve from the heat.Omarwas especially fond of the house s balcony where he could climb to the topof a fig tree, trying to avoid the leaves that irritated his arms, and collecthandfuls of the fruit.The children shared their home with many pets two cats, hedgehogsand a slow-moving turtle.The Taliban banned pets, believing dogsespecially impure, but the Khadr children always managed to find straypuppies and sneak them home.Even when their father found them, heusually didn t have the heart to throw them back on the street.The onlyanimal he ever turned away was a black dog found in Jalalabad, telling thechildren that a pure black animal was evil.Zaynab lived in a separate wing of the house with her second husband,a Yemeni known as Yacoub al Bahr, whose real name is believed to beSameer Saif.She had met al Bahr after her family relocated to Kabul.He had fought with the mujahideen in Bosnia but was just a few yearsolder than Zaynab and not particularly hailed for his fighting skills.Itwas his voice that made him popular in Afghanistan and al Bahr wasinformally known as Kabul s wedding singer.Zaynab wasn t interested inhim, but agreed to the marriage since she could remain with her family,living in a separate wing of the house.Khadr asked his sons what theythought of al Bahr and allowed them to vote before giving final consentto the marriage.Abdurahman, who had never been close with Zaynab,said he wanted al Bahr as part of the family.Kareem liked him, too.ButAbdullah and Omar said they didn t want to vote and privately Omartold Zaynab he didn t want her to marry but didn t want to upset hisfather by saying so.On the day of her wedding in 1999, Zaynab and the women celebratedseparately while the men gathered in Kabul.The ceremony was huge andlasted well into the night.Khadr, the beaming father of the bride, basked73 GUANTANAMO S CHILDin the attention from Afghanistan s elite which included Zawahiri and binLaden.Al Bahr sang one song after another until one of the guests snuck upbehind him and fired an AK-47 into the air.The sound startled al Bahrand his voice cracked mid-song, sending the guests into fits of laughter.Like Zaynab s previous marriage, this one was also fraught withproblems.Her strong will irritated her Yemeni husband, who wasn taccustomed to having women talk back to him, let alone start loud andlengthy debates.Shortly after they married, Zaynab became pregnant withthe first Khadr grandchild.Zaynab returned to her grandparents Scarborough home with hermother in 2000, so the baby could be born in Canada.Instead of letters,Khadr recorded messages on cassettes that he would send to his wife anddaughter, talking about the children and saying how much he missedthem.Omar, Khadr said, was looking after the entire family. Omar is ourmother and our father, our sister and our brother.He cooks our meals anddoes our laundry.Sometimes, I ask your mother, Are you sure he s ours?He s too good to be ours. Zaynab gave birth to a daughter she named Safia, and a few monthslater returned to Kabul.But when Zaynab proudly introduced Safia toa neighbor who had trained as a nurse, she was told Safia s head wasn tforming correctly.The neighbor was Australian Rabiyah Hutchinson, and amongthe foreigners in Kabul, Hutchinson s medical knowledge was revered.Hutchinson had taken a long and circuitous route to Kabul.A Muslimconvert of Scottish heritage, Hutchinson, was on her third marriage.Her second marriage had been to a follower of the Jemaah Islamiyah, anIndonesian group tied to al Qaeda, which claimed responsibility for the2003 Bali bombing that killed 202, including eighty-eight Australians.While living in Afghanistan, Hutchinson met her third husband, EgyptianMustafa Hamid, also known as Abu al Walid al Masri.At first, Zaynab dismissed Hutchinson s comments. All the Khadrshave big heads, she replied, but she took Safia to a local doctor anyway.Safia was eventually diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a conditioncommonly referred to as water on the brain and involves an abnormalaccumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the head s ventricles, causing pressureinside the skull that can lead to convulsions and mental retardation.Although the disease was rare, one of bin Laden s sons had also suffered from74 Flight or Fighthydrocephalus and bin Laden had taken the boy to the United Kingdomin the late 1970s for treatment.Doctors told him the baby would need tohave a shunt inserted to relieve the pressure, but bin Laden wouldn t letthem operate.He took the boy home to Saudi Arabia where he tried totreat him by smearing honey on his head.The boy survived, but as he grewolder was mentally delayed and had trouble interacting socially.Zaynab did not object to having Safia treated but wanted to take herback to Canada to have an operation.Her husband insisted they go toa hospital in Lahore instead.Another fight followed. He didn t like itbecause he felt we were imposing our opinion and our background onhim, Elsamnah said.When they took six-month-old Safia to Canada overhis objections, al Bahr moved out.After 9/11, Khadr ran into al Bahr inKabul and gave him an ultimatum: Divorce her, or stay married andcome back, but don t leave her hanging. Al Bahr consented to a divorceon the condition that Zaynab write a statement saying she would neverrequest anything from him.She quickly complied.Most of al Qaeda s inner circle moved to a compound outside Kandaharin 1997, after leaving Najm al Jihad [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]