Life
As a child, Abdullah claimed his vision of Jannah involved fast cars. In 1994, he was sent to Khalden training camp along with his brother Abdurahman, where he was given the alias Hamza. Omar Nasiri later claimed to have met Abdullah in the camp's infirmary, where he had told Nasiri about witnessing Afghans in Khost blown apart while trying to salvage an unexploded bomb, although Abdullah himself does not remember the encounter. The two brothers fought constantly at the camp, one day their argument became so heated that Abdullah pointed his AK-47 and Abdurahman his PPK handgun, at each other screaming, before a trainer stepped between them. In 1997, a dispute between the brothers was mediated by Abu Laith al-Libi, who earned their confidence and respect telling them about Dubai and Ferraris, later described as "really cool" by Abdurahman. When the family was leaving Nizam Jihad in 1998, Abdurahman and Abdullah fought over seating in the car, and the fight ended with the older Khadr chasing his brother around the car with an AK-47 screaming.
As the oldest son, Abdullah would often drive his crippled father around Pakistan. Following the American invasion of Afghanistan the family split up. In 2002, Zaynab took Abdulkareem to Lahore where her two-year old daughter needed medical attention. The siblings were later joined by Abdullah, since he required surgery to remove cartilage from his nose.
A Taliban spokesman said that the January 26, 2004 suicide bomber that killed Cpl. Jamie Murphy in Kabul was "Mohammed", the son of a Canadian supposedly named Abdulrahman Khadr. The similar names led some to speculate it had been Abdullah, the only son of the family whose whereabouts were unknown at the time. DNA samples from the bomber later proved it wasn't Khadr.
Abdullah was interviewed for the 2004 documentary Son of al Qaeda, and acknowledged attending the Khalden training camp. But he said that a ten-year-old learning to fire an AK47 was as common in Afghanistan as it was for a Canadian child to learn to play hockey. This statement was later used by Richard J. Griffin to label Khadr as "one of the world's most dangerous men"
In 2000, he allegedly had contact with a "high level member of al-Qaeda" who took the 19-year old with him to purchase weapons for fighting against the Northern Alliance militants and supplying an Afghan training camp.
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