Zaynab Khadr, sister of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr, is shown on Parliament Hill Oct. 6, 2008, a day before the start of her hunger strike aimed at reminding politicians of her brother's continued incarceration. ( Photo Credit: BILL GRIMSHAW FOR THE TORONTO STAR ).

Michelle Shephard
National Security Reporter

When Ottawa police received a routine 911 call for a suspected break-in last month, they could never have foreseen the strange saga that would unfold – one that involves a federal court judge, the notorious Khadr family, RCMP protection and a wedding that would set tongues wagging among Ottawa’s political elite.

The home belonged to Patrick J. Boyle, a well-known and connected judge of Canada’s tax court. Police reportedly found the front door smashed, the house ransacked and what appeared to be holes from .22-calibre bullets in the windows.

The incident combined with Boyle’s position raised alarms since the police force was already investigating the murder of his colleague, former Tax Court Chief Justice Alban Garon, who was killed alongside his wife and a neighbour in 2007.

But then another connection came to light. Boyle had recently become the father-in-law of Zaynab Khadr, the outspoken sister of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr.

The link to the Khadr clan, once called “Canada’s First Family of Terrorism” because of the patriarch’s former association with Al Qaeda’s elite, would make the already curious March 20 break-in even more suspicious. Boyle and his wife were given RCMP protection and the federal police force’s INSET division, which normally investigates terrorism cases, was called in.

Although Ottawa police and the RCMP would not comment on the details of the case, the Star has learned that documents were reportedly taken from Boyle’s home and that the three bullet holes indicated the shots were fired from close range. No one was home at the time of the break-in, which was discovered by Boyle’s teenaged daughter that Friday afternoon.

The investigation and the marriage are the latest twists in the Khadr family saga that has been ongoing since the mid-1990s.

In a phone interview and through questions answered by email, Patrick Boyle and his wife Linda said they were unnerved by the break-in, but have been told by the RCMP that it is likely not related to their son’s marriage or the unsolved homicide.

“Our response was typical of how I believe most families would react upon a break-in – we felt that our sense of privacy and safety in our own home was violated,” the couple wrote.

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