Life
Jabarah was born in Al Sabah Hospital in Kuwait City, and traveled to Egypt and Saudi Arabia with his parents as a child.
Jabarah moved to Canada with his family on August 16, 1994 at the age of 12 and attended Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School in St. Catharines, Ontario. He intended to become an ophthalmologist. Their father opened a gas station in St. Catharines.
In 1999, he graduated from high school and was accepted into St. Mary's University in Halifax, but decided not to pursue post-secondary education.
Both Jabarah and his brother returned to Kuwait every summer to visit relatives, where they met with Islamic teacher Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who would later become a spokesman for al-Qaeda. A childhood friend, Anas al-Kandari, introduced him to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden during summers in Kuwait. He returned to Canada and began fundraising, raising C$3,500 which he gave to Ghaith for the First Chechen War.
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