A Canadian judge denied bail for a Canadian wanted by the US for supplying the al-Qaeda terror network with weapons, saying his alleged terrorist links make him a flight risk.
Abdullah Khadr, 24, who is being held in Canada on an extradition warrant, could flee with the help of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy said on Friday.
"That organization could well assist him in escaping this jurisdiction," Molloy said.
US prosecutors have charged Khadr with conspiracy to murder US nationals outside the US and possession of a destructive device. Khadr is son of Ahmed Said Khadr, who was an alleged al-Qaeda financier and a friend of Osama bin Laden.
While authorities say he has confessed during questioning, his lawyer argues that the confessions were derived by torture.
Khadr said he was tortured by Pakistani authorities in a Pakistani prison where he was detained without charges in October last year.
"They relied upon evidence that derived from torture. They abused him by interrogating him on a regular basis," lawyer Dennis Edney said.
"They didn't advise his lawyer or his family for 14 months that he had been detained in a Pakistani prison and that he had interrogated on regular basis by the US and Canadian authorities," he said.
Authorities said Khadr repeatedly waived his rights.
Khadr allegedly bought AK-47 and mortar rounds, rocket-propelled grenades and containers of mine components for al-Qaeda for use against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
The weapons purchases were reportedly made at the request of his Egyptian-born Canadian father who was killed in 2003 when a Pakistani helicopter fired on a house where he was staying with other senior al-Qaeda operatives, authorities said.
Authorities say his father and some of his brothers had fought for al-Qaeda and even stayed with bin Laden.
Authorities also say that Abdullah Khadr repeatedly confessed to buying the weapons and also admitted to a role in an unspecified plot to assassinate Pakistan's prime minister.
In addition, he also reportedly admitted that he received military training at a camp in Afghanistan for four months in the mid-1990s and that he continued buying arms beyond 2003 after his father died, police said.
Pakistani intelligence officers picked him up in a car in Islamabad on Oct. 12 last year.
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