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After this episode, when no charges were laid against her, Zaynab’s status as the outspoken Khadr was sealed. She told Maclean’s, for example, “If carrying my father’s beliefs — and I believe that my father had great beliefs and he did not do anything wrong — is supposed to be poison, then maybe all of us need to have poisoned heads.”

In extradition proceedings for her brother Abdullah, the U.S. alleged that he bought a fraudulent Pakistan passport, which was to be used to get out of Pakistan into a country that would not extradite him, such as China or Iran. Police thought Zaynab had it, but despite searches, never found it.

She has been married four times. Her first was as a teenager when the family was living near Peshawar. Her father Ahmed betrothed her to Khalid Abdullah, a Sudanese-Egyptian who was suspected in the 1995 car bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad. Ahmed was also arrested for this bombing, and was freed to return to Canada when Pakistan dropped the charges for lack of evidence, not long after former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien intervened with former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on his behalf.

‘If carrying my father’s beliefs … is supposed to be poison, then maybe all of us need to have poisoned heads’

This marriage was arranged over her objections — she was just 15 — and was supposed to have taken place soon after the terrorist attack, but Abdullah fled. Two years later, he arranged with Ahmed Khadr for Zaynab to join him in Tehran, but she left within a few months. Two years after that, he was arrested in Pakistan, extradited to Egypt for a massive terror trial, and sent to prison.