(TIME) - Abdulrahman Mansour Jabarah, 24, an al-Qaeda suspect killed on July 3 by Saudi authorities in a firefight near the Jordanian border, is the older brother of Mohammed "Sammy" Jabarah, who is currently in U.S custody and has, according to U.S. officials, admitted involvement in a series of al-Qaeda plots in Southeast Asia. What marks the Jabarah brothers as unique is their background as Canadians - their Iraqi father and Kuwaiti mother had emigrated to St. Catherines, Ontario in 1994. The FBI believes that al-Qaeda recruiters are aggressively enrolling youths like the Jabarahs, with U.S., Canadian, or Western European passports. FBI counter-terrorism chief Larry Mefford recently revealed that al-Qaeda was "refocusing its efforts" to sign on disaffected Americans, green-card holders, and Muslims who had spent time in the U.S. as students or visitors who had a good command of English and a working knowledge of American society and culture.
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