The Alkhalil family (also spelled as al-Khalil) is a Palestinian Canadian family of gangsters.
Origins The Alkhalil family were Palestinians from the Palestine who fled to Lebanon during the First Arab–Israeli War of 1948 and 1949. The First Arab–Israeli War is known as al-Nakba ("the catastrophe") to the Palestinians. The family moved from their refugee camp in Lebanon to Saudi Arabia in search of work, but in common with all Palestinian refugees were denied the right to be Saudi citizens, even if born in Saudi Arabia, which made the Alkhalil family stateless. It is the position of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that all Palestinians, even those born within its borders, are citizens of a yet to be created Palestinian state. The five Alkhalil brothers, who were all born in Saudi Arabia, were Nabil (1976–2018), Khalil (1981–2001), Hisham "Terry" (born 1982), Mahmoud (1984–2003) and Rabih "Robby" (born 8 May 1987).
On 12 December 1990, the Alkhalil family immigrated to Canada as refugees with their refugee application saying they wanted "to escape the Gulf War and the lack of educational resources available to their children" in Saudi Arabia. The family settled in Surrey, British Columbia. A long-standing feud with the three Duhre brothers started at the beginning of the century. In May 2000, Nabil Alkhalil stabbed a Duhre gang member in Holly Park in Surrey. The three Duhre brothers were Sandip "Dip" Duhre, Balraj Duhre and Paul Duhre. The Duhre brothers had once been part of the Punjabi mafia and worked alongside Bindy Johal in the 1990s.
Family members Khalil The first Alkhalil brother to be murdered was the 19 year-old Khalil, who was found dead on 18 January 2001 with six bullets in his body at the entranceway to a Surrey apartment. Khalil Alkhalil had, by the age of 19, already amassed convictions for willful obstruction of a peace officer, possession of a dangerous weapon, assault, uttering death threats and assaulting a peace officer. Martin Naud, the 20 year-old automobile mechanic's apprentice and a drug dealer who killed Khalil was shot in the hand by Khalil, and despite his claims of self-defense was charged with second-degree murder. Naud stated that Khalil was attempting to rob him of the drugs he had with him that were worth about $200.
On 3 February 2001, when Naud posted bail, about 30 members of the Alkhalil family arrived in the courtroom in New Westminster to threaten and bully the Naud family. One of the Alkhalil womenfolk told a female friend of Naud: "You scared, bitch? You better be!" When Naud was granted bail, the Alkhalil family screamed abuse at the Crown Attorney and the judge. As Naud and company left the courtroom, the Alkhalil family started to chant in Arabic "Khalil's not dead!" and "One Alkhalil is dead, but there are still hundreds of Alkhalils and you'll have to face us!" While attempting to leave the courtroom, Philip Rankin, the lawyer for Naud, was punched in the face by Mahmoud Alkhalil, causing him to suffer a broken tooth.
In the months that followed, the Naud family were the victims of a campaign of harassment with shots being fired into their house, a machete being left on their front lawn, and leaflets appearing in their neighborhood calling Naud a murderer. Naud's mother left British Columbia to escape the harassment. Rankin was also the victim of harassment, being beaten-up several times by Mahmoud Alkhalil. At Naud's trial, he testified that Khalil Alkhalil had tried to rob him and in the ensuring struggle he was able to wrestle his gun away from him, which he then used to kill him. On 7 November 2002, Naud was acquitted with the jury ruling he acted in self-defense. On 11 April 2003, Raymond Naud, the father of Martin, was shot and wounded inside his own house. On 5 July 2004, Martin Naud was murdered in Kelowna by an unknown gunman who executed him as he was getting out of his automobile.
Naud was working as a drug dealer for the Dhak-Duhre group, and the killing of Khalil started a feud. Superintendent Mike Porteous of the Vancouver Police Department stated in 2018: "It started as a dispute over drug trafficking lines in Surrey way back in the day. But it became much more personal with the murder of Khalil. They've been involved in a conflict with the Duhre guys for a good 20 years and it kind of ebbed and flowed relative to different murders and struggles over drug territory". In July 2002, Nabil Alkhalil was found with a handgun in his possession, which caused his parole to be revoked. Parole documents from 2002 stated: "Alkhalil told police that he thought his life was in danger. He said he believes that the Duhre brothers have a contract on his head. The Duhre brothers were involved in the incident that resulted in the death of one of (Nabil) Alkhalil's brothers. Alkhalil retaliated at the time by beating up one of the Duhres. There has been bad blood since. The Duhre brothers are considered by police to be violent as are Alkhalil and his brother Mahmoud".
Mahmoud Mahmoud Alkhalil was a member of the Independent Soldiers street gang. On 16 August 2003, he was shot during a shoot-out with the Hells Angels on the dance floor of the Loft Six nightclub in Gastown. Mahmoud was able to make his way out of Loft Six to his automobile, drove a few blocks, and died of massive blood loss caused by his wounds a few minutes later. Mahmoud was 19 years old at the time of his murder. Sandip "Dip" Duhre was present in Loft Six at the time of the shoot-out. Despite the fact that it was the Hells Angels who killed Mahmound, the Alkhalil family blamed Duhre for his murder.
Nabil Nabil Alkhalil relocated to Ottawa, where he remained active in organised crime. On 1 May 2005, he was involved in a lengthy high-speed chase down the highway and roads of eastern Ontario as he attempted to elude the police in his white Cadillac Deville automobile, running his car at speeds of more than 210 kilometers per hour over 32 kilometers. When Alkhalil was finally arrested outside of Cornwall after having abandoned his car, he was found to be carrying a duffle bag with 11 kilograms of cocaine in it. At his trial, Justice Hugh McLean noted that Alkhalil was already under a deportation order to send him back to Saudi Arabia owing to his lengthy criminal record, but instead sentenced him to prison for possession of narcotics with the intention of trafficking, dangerous driving and failing to stop for the police.
He remained in Canada despite the deportation order following his release from prison. Alkhalil visited the Lebanese embassy in Ottawa several times in an unsuccessful attempt to have a Lebanese passport issued in his name. In November 2010, Alkhalil disappeared from Canada following warnings that rival gangsters wanted him dead. His parents, Hossein Alkhalil and Soumayya Azzam, lost the $170,000 in bail they posted for Nabil.
In 2013, Nabil Alkhalil went to Mexico on a forged Canadian passport. He worked at a used car dealership in Ciudad López Mateos while continuing to be active in organised crime. Nabil Alkhalil is believed to have served as the Alkhalil family's liaison with the Sinaloa Cartel. On 6 November 2013, Alkhalil phoned his mother in Surrey to say he was "somewhere in the Middle East". In 2015, he was arrested in Colombia when the airport officials at the Bogotá airport discovered he had arrived with a forged Canadian passport. He was sent to Panama City and again vanished. On 24 August 2018, Nabil was involved in a money dispute with a wealthy Ciudad López Mateos businessman, Javier Armando Nuñez, which entailed much shouting on both sides and which ended Alkhalil being shot dead with a 9mm handgun. The State of Mexico state police charged Nuñez's bodyguard, José Mario Venegas González, with the murder. Hossein Alkhalil and Soumayya Azzam have argued in newspaper interviews that Venegas was the "fall guy" and the real killer was Armando as no gunpower residue was found on Venegas's hands after his arrest while the police never inspected Armando's hands for gunpower residue.
Hisham On 30 January 2014, Hisham "Terry" Alkhalil was arrested in Ottawa and charged with conspiracy to traffic in cocaine. As part of the Project Anarchy raids, the police seized 54 pounds of cocaine with a street value of $12 million. The Ottawa police also seized Hisham's lavish house on Rossland Avenue worth $1.1 million as the proceeds of crime. On 14 January 2016, the Ottawa police seized the Abu Abed Café owned by Hisham as the proceeds of crime. Mike Laviolette of the Ottawa police who worked on the Project Anarchy case said of the family: "They were very active, not just on a local and national level, but an international level as well which demonstrated their ability to just be as mobile as they wanted to be...It was the propensity for violence — the potential for them being violent, or people who wanted them dead being violent, in our city. We disrupted them enough that we were able to prevent any type of large-scale violence within our city." In 2018, the Project Anarchy charges against Hisham were stayed when a judge ruled that the Crown had taken too long to bring the case to trial.
Rabih Rabih "Robby" Alkhalil relocated to Montreal, where he rented an expensive penthouse condominium at 555 René Lévesque Boulevard West with a stunning view of the St. Lawrence river. Alkhalil was the leader of the Wolfpack Alliance alongside Larry Amero. Montreal is regarded as the most important city in the Canadian underworld as it is a major port city with ocean access, well connected via highways to other cities, and is only 332 miles from New York City, the biggest and richest drug market in North America. Ever since the Prohibition era, there has been a well developed smuggling route running south from Montreal to New York. Both Alkhalil and Amero were interested in seizing control of the Montreal underworld as a stepping stone to entering the New York drug market. Alkhalil employed a hitman, Dean Michael Wiwchar, whom he called "my best hitter". Together with the other members of the Wolfpack Alliance, Alkhalil used encrypted texts on the Pretty Good Privacy system to communicate, and like the other Wolfpack members, he often frankly wrote about murders. The Wolfpack worked as distributors of cocaine from the Sinaloa Cartel of Mexico, whose leader was Joaquín Guzmán, better known by his moniker El Chapo ("the shorty"). A key member of the Wolfpack was Shane Kenneth Maloney of the West End Gang which controls the Port of Montreal.
Alkhalil opened an haute couture shop in Old Montreal and shared his condo with Larry Amero of the Hells Angels White Rock chapter. The Canadian journalist Peter Edwards and the Mexican journalist Luis Nájera wrote Amero and Alkhalil "...tightened up their own connections with Mexican cocaine suppliers" during their time in Montreal. Edwards and Nájera wrote that Alkhalil and Amero were in charge of a smuggling operation to bring in cocaine from via secret compartments in trucks from the United States. The Wolfpack Alliance were reported to have smuggled in about 400 kilograms of cocaine per month.