Authorities in Riyadh are frustrating members of the Jabarah family, who are hoping to retrieve the body of their Canadian son shot dead in Saudi Arabia two weeks ago. Abdul-Rahman Jabarah, a 23-year-old from St. Catharines, Ont., who was alleged to be an al-Qaeda operative, died July 3, battling Saudi forces among a group of militants. His parents, who deny that their son was a terrorist, have yet to recover the body. “We’d like to bury him . . . and we’d like to see his body, to see if he is Abdul-Rahman or not,” Mansour Jabarah, his father, said in a telephone interview from Kuwait yesterday. The plan is for a burial in Kuwait, the country where the young man grew up. Kuwaiti and Canadian officials have been trying to help the family retrieve the body. Full Story
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