A United States intelligence agency paid a bounty of $500,000 to Pakistan’s military for the arrest of the Canadian son of a suspected Al Qaeda financier, according to reports, quoting court documents, published in the Canadian press.Papers filed in a Canadian court say that Abdullah Khadr was wanted by the Americans for “supporting insurgent activity in Pakistan and Afghanistan”, since he was “deemed to be a national security threat.” The Globe and Mail newspaper from Toronto, which obtained the information after fighting to be able to publish it, said Khadr is the eldest son of Egyptian-born Canadian national Ahmed Said Khadr, and the brother of Omar Khadr, the only Canadian held at Guantanamo. Abdullah was held in Pakistan for almost a year before returning in 2005 to Canada, where he was arrested and jailed, and is now fighting extradition to the US.
Justice officials inadvertently disclosed the top secret memo in court filings last year and fought the Globe and Mail not to publish it, but lost.