Abdul Rahman Jabarah Abdul Rahman Jabarah ( عبدالرحمن جبارة ) was a Canadian killed in a July 2003 firefight with Saudi Arabian officials who believed he was involved in the Riyadh compound bombings by al - Qaeda . Life . The brother of Mohammed Jabarah and a former student at Brock University , the University of Ottawa and Carleton University , In February 2001 , Jabarah left Afghanistan to visit his parents in Kuwait City , and agreed to accompany them on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca , since his mother had not been before . After having a " lovely time " , the three of them returned to Canada - where border officials questioned the Pakistani visa in Jabarah ' s passport . Jabarah met with his brother in Dubai in January 2002 , when both were already considered wanted al - Qaeda suspects . Four months later when Mohammed was arrested in Oman , Jabarah phoned his father Mansour who warned him that Canadian authorities were looking for him . Their family immigrated to Canada on August 16 , 1994 . Their father , of Iraqi descent , opened a gas station in St . Catharines . Both Jabarah and his brother returned to Kuwait every summer to visit relatives , where they met with Islamic teacher Sulaiman Abu Ghaith , who would later become a spokesman for al - Qaeda . In July 2000 , Abdul Rahman left for an Afghan training camp , and the following month Mohammed flew to Kuwait where he met with Ghaith who paid his fare to Karachi , from whence he traveled to Peshawar and hiked on foot into Torkham where the two brothers met up , waiting for their promised camp to finish construction and hanging around the Sheik Shaheed Abu Yahya Training Camp near Kabul instead . In January 2001 , he returned to his family in Canada , before embarking on the Hajj to Saudi Arabia . Meanwhile , Mohammed attended a 10 - week program at Al Farouq training camp before moving into a guesthouse in Kandahar where his brother later visited him . Jabarah met with his brother Mohammed in Dubai in January 2002 , when both were already considered wanted al - Qaeda suspects ; likely because Mohammed ' s Canadian passport had been found on December 8 – 9 in a raid by Singaporean authorities on suspected al - Qaeda militants . Death . He wasn ' t heard from again until July 2003 , when Saudi Arabia announced he had been killed in a shoot - out with al - Qaeda forces believed to be responsible for the Riyadh compound bombings earlier that year , with some even suggesting he had been a commander . At 5pm on May 6 , the Saudi authorities raided a weapons cache in the Eshbiliah Quarter of Riyadh , and seized 55 grenades , five large bags filled with 377 kilograms of explosives , four machine guns with three boxes containing approximately 2 , 250 rounds , five computers , telecommunication devices , travel documents , identity cards , notebooks , bulletins , 253 , 717 Riyals and 5 , 300 American dollar s . A search of the compound also turned up a parked car with three machine guns and a number of masks . The militants drove up while the police were searching the house , and quickly fled the scene until their car stalled , at which point they carjacked a nearby driver and escaped . Six days later , the group carried out the Riyadh compound bombings that killed 26 - 34 people , including 9 American citizens . The authorities subsequently issued a list of 19 names tied to the bombing , including Jabarah , Zubayr al - Rimi , Ali Abd al - Rahman al - Faqasi and four of the dead bombers . The July 3 raid in Zuhair had targeted the home of local Imam Musaad Hamdam Faleh al - Ruwaily , who surrendered himself along with Hassan Hadi al - Dossari . However , Turki al - Dandani , Rajeh al - Ajami , Amaash al - Subaie and Jabarah remained in the house and engaged in a firefight , in which they were all killed , or blew themselves up with grenades . In addition , Mohammed al - Suqabi , Nassir al - Ruwaily and Mahmoud Hazbar were arrested while trying to escape the scene . His parents were not allowed to see or claim his body . In December 2003 , he was eulogised in a speech by al - Qaeda as a fallen martyr , in a tape labeled " The Martyrs of the Confrontations in Bilad al - Haramain " .