Deport the fucker and let the girl decide if she wants to stay here or go to Iraq to become a slave.
Living in Iraq would be better than a life in Canada for his then-preteen daughter, international kidnapping suspect Ali Al Aazawi told an undercover police officer.
In a conversation in Arabic and translated into English, the undercover officer testified he met with Al Aazawi in a Calgary jail cell shortly after the city man was arrested in April 2019.
The officer, whose identity is subject to a strict publication ban that allowed him to testify remotely and off-screen, said Al Aazawi was placed in a cell with him at the Calgary Police Service’s Westwinds Campus on April 12.
Posing as a fellow Arabic-Canadian in legal trouble, the officer discussed Al Aazawi’s recent arrest for kidnapping his then-11-year-old daughter, Zahraa.
Reading from a transcript of the conversation, the unnamed officer said Al Aazawi said it was better to raise children back home in Iraq, where he left his daughter after taking her to Egypt with her mother’s permission the previous summer.
“Back home is better than here, even if they stay with whores,” the witness quoted Al Aazawi.
“I am willing to put my children with whores, it is better than here.”
Al Aazawi faces charges of international kidnapping and abducting a child in violation of a parenting order in connection with his transportation of Zahraa to his Middle Eastern homeland.
Al Aazawi was given the blessing of his ex-wife, Zainab Mahdi, to take the child on a summer vacation to Egypt and Turkey between June 16 and Sept. 5, 2018.
But Mahdi, who testified earlier, said a little more than a week into the trip she learned her daughter was in Iraq and Al Aazawi proclaimed she wouldn’t be returning to Canada.
The girl remains with members of his family there.
The undercover officer said he was placed in the cell with the accused to try to get details about the girl’s whereabouts and whether she would be coming home.
Al Aazawi told him he wanted his daughter to learn about their culture, especially as it pertains to respecting one’s father, the officer said.
But the accused also expressed a desire for his daughter to return to Canada to obtain a higher education, hoping she would one day be a doctor.
He even told the officer if Zahraa refused to come back when she is older he would feign being deathly ill so she would rush to his side.
But Al Aazawi said he didn’t want his daughter embracing Canadian culture.
“Would you tolerate to be insulted or let your daughter (have sex with) a Canadian and become a whore?” he asked near the end of the conversation.
His trial continues Friday.
calgarysun.com
Living in Iraq would be better than a life in Canada for his then-preteen daughter, international kidnapping suspect Ali Al Aazawi told an undercover police officer.
In a conversation in Arabic and translated into English, the undercover officer testified he met with Al Aazawi in a Calgary jail cell shortly after the city man was arrested in April 2019.
The officer, whose identity is subject to a strict publication ban that allowed him to testify remotely and off-screen, said Al Aazawi was placed in a cell with him at the Calgary Police Service’s Westwinds Campus on April 12.
Posing as a fellow Arabic-Canadian in legal trouble, the officer discussed Al Aazawi’s recent arrest for kidnapping his then-11-year-old daughter, Zahraa.
Reading from a transcript of the conversation, the unnamed officer said Al Aazawi said it was better to raise children back home in Iraq, where he left his daughter after taking her to Egypt with her mother’s permission the previous summer.
“Back home is better than here, even if they stay with whores,” the witness quoted Al Aazawi.
“I am willing to put my children with whores, it is better than here.”
Al Aazawi faces charges of international kidnapping and abducting a child in violation of a parenting order in connection with his transportation of Zahraa to his Middle Eastern homeland.
Al Aazawi was given the blessing of his ex-wife, Zainab Mahdi, to take the child on a summer vacation to Egypt and Turkey between June 16 and Sept. 5, 2018.
But Mahdi, who testified earlier, said a little more than a week into the trip she learned her daughter was in Iraq and Al Aazawi proclaimed she wouldn’t be returning to Canada.
The girl remains with members of his family there.
The undercover officer said he was placed in the cell with the accused to try to get details about the girl’s whereabouts and whether she would be coming home.
Al Aazawi told him he wanted his daughter to learn about their culture, especially as it pertains to respecting one’s father, the officer said.
But the accused also expressed a desire for his daughter to return to Canada to obtain a higher education, hoping she would one day be a doctor.
He even told the officer if Zahraa refused to come back when she is older he would feign being deathly ill so she would rush to his side.
But Al Aazawi said he didn’t want his daughter embracing Canadian culture.
“Would you tolerate to be insulted or let your daughter (have sex with) a Canadian and become a whore?” he asked near the end of the conversation.
His trial continues Friday.
Dad charged with kidnapping wanted daughter raised away from western culture
Editor’s Note: This story contains strong language.
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