Maiwand Yar
Maiwand Yar is a Canadian citizen, from Winnipeg who traveled to Pakistan with two friends from the University of Manitoba, in 2007.[1][2][3]
A series of letters Maiwand wrote were used as evidence at the 2017 trial of his friend Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh.[4]
References
- ↑ Alan Feuer (2017-09-29). "Texas Man Convicted of Helping Attack U.S. Army Base in Afghanistan". The New York Times: p. A20. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/nyregion/texas-man-convicted-of-helping-attack-us-army-base-in-afghanistan.html. Retrieved 2019-07-09. "When he was first identified as a Qaeda operative, his case prompted a debate within the U.S. government over whether it was morally and legally defensible to kill an American citizen overseas without a trial."
- ↑ Brendan Pierson (2017-09-29). "American convicted of supporting al Qaeda, aiding bomb attack". Reuters (New York City). https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-alqaeda/american-convicted-of-supporting-al-qaeda-aiding-bomb-attack-idUSKCN1C42ZY. Retrieved 2019-07-09. "Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, 31, was convicted of charges that included conspiring to murder Americans and use a weapon of mass destruction, and supporting a foreign terrorist organization, according to John Marzulli, a spokesman for U.S. prosecutors in Brooklyn."
- ↑ Colin Freeze; Greg McArthur (2011-03-15). "Mounties lay terror charges against missing Canadians". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2013-03-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20130305233458/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mounties-lay-terror-charges-against-missing-canadians/article572373/. Retrieved 2012-05-10. "A third missing University of Manitoba student, Muhannad al-Farekh, remains unaccounted for, but faces no charges."
- ↑ Joanna Slater; Colin Freeze (2017-09-11). "Letters from a Jihadi: inside the mind of a Canadian accused of joining al-Qaeda". The Globe and Mail (New York City, Toronto). Archived from the original on 2017-09-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20170912015625/https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/letters-from-a-jihadi-canadian-al-qaeda/article36233073/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&. Retrieved 2019-07-10. "The correspondence, revealed in a recent U.S. court filing, yields a telling portrait of the mindset of an alleged Canadian jihadist at a time when the federal government is increasingly investing in ways to avert the spread of extremist ideology. The letters were written by Maiwand Yar, one of three students in Winnipeg who mysteriously vanished from Canada a decade ago before surfacing in the remote tribal areas of Pakistan. Authorities allege the trio became highly dangerous terrorists by joining remnants of al-Qaeda's core leaders overseas."
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