INDEPTH: U.S. SECURITY
Wanted – again
Canadians on an FBI terror list
CBC News Online | May 27, 2004
Amer El-Maati
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Amer El-Maati
Possible aliases: Amro Badr Eldin Abou El-Maati, Amro Badr Abouelmaati
Born May 25, 1963, in Kuwait. He was last known to have been in Toronto in November 2001. He had a Canadian passport, issued in Pakistan in 1998.
El-Maati came to Canada as a teenager and went to high school in Toronto. He moved to Montreal where he went to university. After graduation, he went to Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight with the mujahedeen against Soviet forces occupying Afghanistan.
According to his father, El-Maati lately has been involved with humanitarian work in Pakistan. Badr El-Maati says he has not heard from his son in several years.
El-Maati first attracted attention in November 2001 after several documents bearing his name were found in an al-Qaeda safe house in Kabul. Among them was a letter notifying him that he had been granted Canadian citizenship.
Following that discovery, the FBI posted a global notice describing El-Maati as wanted "in connection with possible terrorist threats in the United States."
Later that month, El-Maati’s brother, Ahmad Abou El-Maati, became the first of four Canadians to be jailed in Syria in the span of a year. His arrest came a few months after he was stopped at the Canada-U.S. border while working as a truck driver. Border guards found a map of Ottawa marking government buildings and nuclear research facilities. Ahmad Abou El-Maati returned to Canada earlier this year after spending two years in jail in Syria and Egypt.
Badr El-Maati has said neither of his sons is a terrorist.
The United States has issued alerts about El-Maati on at least three occasions.
Abderraouf Jdey
Abderraouf Jdey
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Possible aliases: Abd Al-Rauf Bin Al-Habib Bin Yousef Al-Jiddi, Abderraouf Dey, A. Raouf Jdey, Abdal Ra'Of Bin Muhammed Bin Yousef Al-Jadi, Farouq Al-Tunisi, Abderraouf Ben Habib Jeday
Born May 30, 1965, in Tunisia. He came to Canada in 1991 and was known to have lived in Montreal for several years. Jdey became a Canadian citizen in 1995 and was granted a passport in 1999.
Jdey was identified as one of five men in a videotape that shows al-Qaeda members delivering martyrdom messages. The tape was found in the wreckage of the Kabul home of Mohammad Atef, believed to have been Osama bin Laden's military chief. Atef was killed in the air strike. Jdey also left a suicide note promising to die in battle against non-Muslim infidels.
Jdey's image was first widely circulated by U.S. officials in January 2002. He is thought to have left Canada for good in November 2001, just a few months after obtaining a replacement passport. He told authorities in Montreal the passport issued to him in 1999 was lost.
The United States has issued alerts about Jdey on at least three occasions.
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