Ahmad El-Maati

Ahmad El-Maati

Ahmad Abou El-Maati (Arabic: أحمد ابوالمعاطي‎) (born October 1, 1964) is a Canadian citizen who was arrested and detained for two and a half years in Syrian and Egyptian prisons. He had found a Visitor's Map to Ottawa and was travelling to Syria to get married. This evidence, as well as the post-September 11 fear, led him to be considered a suspected terrorist. In 2001 El-Maati was the subject of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigation into what appeared to be a terror plot involving his job as a truck driver.

He is the brother of suspected Al-Qaeda member Amer el-Maati.