In July 1995, Ahmed Khadr arranged for his 15-year-old daughter Zaynab to marry Abdullah in December.[1] Her mother Maha el-Samnah began preparing an apartment for the couple in the family's house,[2] and Abdullah lived with the family for two months, "like a trial engagement".[2][3]
Abdullah was 26 at the time of the bombing, and was believed to have purchased one of the trucks used in the attack.[4][5] He fled to Lahore after the attack, and disappeared.[6]
He re-surfaced in Tehran in October 1997, and contacted the Khadr family to try to reschedule the wedding he had missed. Ahmed agreed to bring his family on a long vacation culminating in the city for a farewell to the reluctant Zaynab as she started a new life with Abdullah.[2]
Six months after the couple began living in a rented Tehran apartment, Abdullah phoned his father-in-law to report that Zaynab was inconsolable at being separated from her family, and the marriage wasn't working out. She returned to live with her family.[2]
In 1999, he was arrested in Pakistan, and was one of hundreds extradited to the Egyptian "Returnees from Albania" tribunal. He was sentenced to a lengthy prison term.[2][7]
