[2] The Rasoul brothers moved to Canada with their parents in 1990/91,[1][3] and were granted Canadian citizenship before settling down in North York, Ontario.
[3] Saeed is a graduate of Seneca College, and married Ibtisam Salahaddin Muhammad in 1995, the year she immigrated to Canada from Iraq.
[1] Saeed then began applying for networking engineer jobs, putting in an application to join the United Nations Kurdistan field office.
[1] On November 2, 2002, Ibtisam was stopped at a routine checkpoint on her way to Biara, where she told police that her husband was friends with Farhat and was working as a computer engineer for Ansar al-Islam.
[1] After the PUK labeled Saeed a "computer expert" who aided the militant group,[5] his wife and two children were placed under house arrest by police chief Westa Hassan in Sulaymaniya in 2003.