Ahmed Saïd Khadr (Arabic: أحمد سعيد خضر; March 1, 1948 – October 2, 2003) was an Egyptian-Canadian with alleged ties to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

He funded the construction of Makkah Mukarama Hospital in Afghanistan with his own savings,[4][5][6] as well as seven medical clinics in the Afghan refugee camps of Pakistan.

Omar accepted a plea deal (which he later recanted) and pleaded guilty to charges of war crimes in October 2010; he was repatriated to Canada in 2012 to serve the remainder of his sentence and was released on bail in 2015.

[12][page needed] Khadr started working at Bell Northern Research, while writing his master's thesis, entitled Development of a CSSL interface to GASP IV.

[12] He also became acquainted with Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, the founder of the Islamic Union for the Liberation of Afghanistan and a mujahideen warlord, with whom Khadr would later nurture a close relationship.

[7] In the autumn, the family returned to Peshawar, where Khadr met Ayman al-Zawahiri,[12] a doctor who had been convicted in Pakistan five years earlier for arms dealing.

[19] Under Khadr's leadership, HCI built Hope Village in Akora Khattak to house 400 orphans,[20][21] and a number of unemployed refugees were given work repairing damage at the Khost airfield.

[27] On November 2, unknown men assumed to be associated with Azzam broke into Khadr's Peshawar offices and seized documents, leading to the freezing of al-Tahaddi's accounts with Habib Bank and a shifting of the project's assets to a Saudi Red Crescent warehouse.

Eight months after the end of the Soviet invasion, Khadr was profiled in the Toronto Star newspaper, pleading for Western aid to help Afghanistan rebuild; he noted the nation had the highest child mortality rate in the world.

The exact cause of the wounds is debated, Human Concern International maintains that Khadr was inside one of their refugee camps when he stepped on a landmine, while his son Abdurahman has said that he was hurt by a bomb during the ongoing battles between warlords.

[16]In the autumn of 1993, Khadr returned to Pakistan with his family, renting a comfortable house with its own garden in Hayatabad while he continued working with HCI despite his injuries.

[12] Human Concern International had struggled with the year-long absence of Khadr's management, and had hired Abdullah Almalki from Carleton University to replace him.

An angry Khadr wrote a letter to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, complaining that he should be compensated for the money he spent in fixing the building.

[22] On November 19, Ayman al-Zawahiri carried out an attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan, and the suitor Ahmed had arranged for his daughter went into hiding, named as one of the conspirators.

[12] The police managed to enter, and took his wife, three children and in-laws who were visiting from Canada, into custody while they searched the house,[34] seizing $10,000[35] $29,000[22] or $40,000[36] in cash from the home.

[20] He was interviewed in hospital, where he denounced Foreign Minister Assef Ahmad Ali's claim that he had financed the explosives, detonation devices, and both vehicles used in the bombing.

[43] Trying to distance themselves from the controversy, HCI issued a statement in December, stating that Khadr and his colleague Helmy el-Sharief no longer worked for the organization.

[22] Khadr then founded his own charity, Health & Education Projects International[44] which was located in the Kart-e-Parwan district of Kabul and listed the Canadian Salahedin Mosque as a partner.

[49] In 1997, while living in the Pathan district of Peshawar,[22] Khadr began visiting Nazim Jihad, bin Laden's family home in Jalalabad.

[22] At an unspecified time during his life in Pakistan, Khadr made use of his master's degree and provided computer training and systems "for the government employees from 14 departments".

[22] Reports suggest that when Pakistani forces stormed the apartment of an Algerian named Abu Elias in Lahore, Khadr was actually present but was either not recognised by the troops, or allowed to leave.

The family fled Kabul the day before its fall to the Northern Alliance, and made a temporary home in the Logar orphanage the night of November 10.

[12] Shortly afterwards,[5] Bin Laden approached Khadr and asked him to join the Mujahideen Shura Council,[5][dubious – discuss] organising the retreat of families from the Northern Alliance onslaught, to the relative safety of the Pakistan border.

[12] On October 2, 2003, Khadr, his son Abdulkareem, al-Jowfi, al-Iraqi, Khalid Habib and Qari Ismail were all staying at a South Waziristan safe house.

[12] However, a Pakistani helicopter team and hundreds of security forces attacked the village before the pair were able to depart,[73] and Abdulkareem lay down in a ditch but was shot in the spine, paralyzing him from the waist down.

[84] In late December, Maha had attorney Hashmat Ali Habib file a petition to the Supreme Court of Pakistan asking for details about whether her husband and son were killed or captured in the operation.

[89] In Canadian Federal Court Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson's 2005 ruling rejecting Hassan Almrei's application for release, she quoted a confidential CSIS agent named only as P.G.

Terrorism Risk Insurance Act,[94] but since the Federal government is not bound by civil rulings, it has refused to release Khadr's frozen assets.

[95] In one of the latest Musharraf-led campaigns, several mujahidin were killed, including brother martyr Ahmad Said Khadr, nicknamed Abu Abdurahman al-Kanadi.

Al-Kanadi is one of thousands of Arab supporters whose blood was spilled in every valley and mountain in Afghanistan... After his death, the media began referring to a "Khadr effect".