He said he didn't hear from the Canadians for another 18 months. He assumed they had abandoned him. Meanwhile, he said the CIA made him an offer. "They brought me a paper," he said. "They said $5,000 bonus 'for you being very co-operative and from now on just by working with us, just answering our questions, you get paid $3,000 a month, until you stop working for us.' "The paper said I would get paid until someone found out about this. Now the account was under my name. It was a CIA account somewhere. I don't know where. But the money went to my account. And whenever I want my money I can ask for it." He said he worked for the CIA in Kabul for about nine months until his favourite agent, a woman, told him he'd be going to Cuba undercover and treated just like any other prisoner. "For three months I was in general population," Khadr told the CBC. "Their hope was when they take me to Cuba they could put me next to anyone that was stubborn and that wouldn't talk and, you know, I would talk him into it. "Well, it's not that easy, first thing, because lots of people won't talk to anyone because everybody in Cuba is scared of the person next to him. I couldn't do a lot for them." He said he was almost at the point of suicide when he asked to be removed from the prison camp. He said he was transferred to more luxurious quarters and given access to doctors for five months. He said the CIA considered several international destinations to gather information about Islamic radicals. Then the focus moved to al-Qaida activity in Iraq and Bosnia. Last September, Khadr said, the CIA provided him with a training course in undercover work, then he was given a false passport and sent to Bosnia, where he was to blend in with the transient Muslim population in Sarajevo. He was in Bosnia when news arrived of the military attack in Pakistan which killed his father, Ahmed Said Khadr. Abdurahman says he had long resented his father for dragging the whole family into the world of al-Qaida. He said after his first week in Bosnia, the CIA asked him to actually volunteer to go into Iraq with al-Qaida forces so that he could funnel information to the U.S. military. They told him it would be dangerous. Khadr said he was afraid and called his grandmother in Toronto, telling her that he desperately wanted to come back to Canada. He told her to announce in the media that the Canadian government was not helping him. After the news broke in Canada, he said he was brought to a CIA safe house in Sarajevo, where the Americans agreed to let him go back to Canada, and he promised he would not tell anyone of his CIA dealings. He said the CIA took away all the things they had bought him and dropped him off at the Canadian embassy.
