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TORONTO — A Canadian indicted in the U.S. on charges that he supplied al-Qaeda with weapons was freed Wednesday after more than four years in jail after a judge refused to extradite him to the United States.
Abdullah Khadr, 29, has been held in Canada on a U.S. warrant since his December 2005 arrest. He is wanted in the U.S. for allegedly purchasing weapons for al-Qaeda and plotting to kill Americans abroad.
The U.S. case against Khadr relied on a statement he made to the FBI and Canadian police in Pakistan and information he gave when he arrived in Toronto in December 2005. Khadr’s attorneys argued the statements made in Pakistan were the result of torture.
