'Terror suspect confessed to weapons purchases'

TORONTO: A Canadian terror suspect confessed to buying guns and rocket launchers for al-Qaida to use against US forces in Afghanistan, according to a court filing.
In an affidavit submitted to the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto on Monday, where Abdullah Khadr appeared at a preliminary hearing, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corp. Richard Jenkins wrote that Khadr admitted ties to senior al-Qaida members and confessed to buying guns and rocket launchers for them in Afghanistan.
Khadr also admitted to a role in an unspecified plot to assassinate Pakistan's prime minister.
According to the affidavit, it is alleged that his father and some of his brothers had fought for al-Qaida and even stayed with the terror network's leader, Osama bin Laden.
Khadr, 24, who entered no plea at the hearing, faces extradition to the United States on charges of possessing, and conspiracy to possess, a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence, according to the US attorney's office in Boston, where the charges were filed. He faces a maximum of life in prison if convicted.
Khadr was arrested on Saturday. A bail hearing could come as soon as Wednesday.
He is alleged to have bought AK-47 and mortar rounds, rocket-propelled grenades and containers of mine components for al-Qaida.
The weapons purchases were made at the request of his father, Ahmed Said Khadr, an Egyptian-born Canadian who was killed in 2003 when a Pakistani Cobra helicopter fired on a house where he was staying with senior al-Qaida operatives, authorities said.