Early Life and Education
The family lived most of the time in Pakistan in the period when the younger children were born. Their father was wounded in 1992, and Abdulkareem traveled with his parents to Canada for his father's care. They went briefly to Tajikstan in 1994.
The Saudi Muslim guerrilla fighter and financier Ibn Al-Khattab gave Abdulkareem a rabbit of his own, which he named Khattab.
Around 1999, while he and his parents were staying with the family of Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kandahar, the ten-year-old Abdulkareem begged the al-Qaeda leader to let him hold his gun after he returned home one night. Al-Zawahiri relented, and let the boy inspect the weapon.
In 2001, the family split up, with Maha taking the younger children, with the help of Zaynab, to go with other families into the mountains. Ahmed would visit them regularly. In 2002, Abdulkareem accompanied his older sister Zaynab Khadr to Lahore, where she went for medical care for her two-year old daughter. The siblings were joined there by their brother Abdullah Khadr, who needed surgery on his nose.
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