Canadian Sunni Muslim wanted in connection to U.S. murder flees to Iraqi homeland.

Canadian Sunni Muslim wanted in connection to U.S. murder flees to Iraqi homeland.HT:VladTepes.(NP).According to those who knew him in Canada and the United States, Ali Al-Ibrahim Abid was born into a wealthy Shiite family in Iraq. Because his family had ties to Iran, they feared persecution when the Iran-Iraq war erupted in 1980, and in 1982 Mr. Abid left. He worked in Montreal for a Toronto-based company and became a citizen but in the mid-90s, he left Canada with his wife. They ended up in Weyers Cave, Va., about two hours west of Washington, D.C., where they raised three kids. Harrisonburg Police Department Ali Abid.
Mr. Abid, who received a green card in 2001 by virtue of having married a U.S. citizen, owned a contracting company called Aspen Industries. “We only build the best,” the company website proclaimed. But after the U.S. economy collapsed in 2008, Mr. Abid struggled financially.
WHSV television reported he fell behind on his American Express payments to the tune of $22,000, and owed more than $44,000 on his truck. The bank foreclosed on the family home and his wife had to find a job. As his business was tanking, Mr. Abid began devoting more time to the Virginia Iraqi community, which was swelling following the Second Gulf War, several community members said. If Iraqis needed money for rent, they would go to Mr. Abid and he would hold fundraisers for them. He also started hosting Shiite prayer services at his construction company office. “He began to devote extreme amounts of time not to his business but to these people, which in and of itself isn’t bad,” said Sherwin Jacobs, a family friend and lawyer who represents Mr. Abid’s wife, Margot Kons, in the divorce proceedings.
“He became like their leader, their go-to person,” he said. “He was the one they looked up to and his businesses started to go.” He also “started to become, I don’t know if it was psychotic, paranoid, delusional? But there was a personality change,” he said. His wife thought he was going through some kind of post-traumatic stress as a result of the destruction unfolding in Iraq. Then he bought a 9mm handgun. When she found out he was having an affair with an Iraqi woman in the area, Ms. Kons went to Mr. Jacobs. The lawyer thought Mr. Abid held an unconventional view of divorce. He seemed to believe that, being a man, he could unilaterally end his marriage just by saying so. Mr. Jacobs summed up Mr. Abid’s perspective this way: “Who are you to divorce me? I am the man.” 
The divorce complaint, filed in February 2011, claimed Mr. Abid had denied he was committing adultery because his girlfriend was actually “his new wife.” 
Needing help with the case, the lawyer called Mr. Brown. On the morning of March 3, 2011, private investigator Greg Brown kissed his wife Debbie goodbye and left in his gray Honda Accord to serve divorce papers on Ali Abid, a 49-year-old Canadian who ran a contracting company in Harrisonburg, Va.
Two days later, Mr. Brown still hadn’t come home and the Harrisonburg police issued a press release asking if anyone had seen him. “Please everyone be on the lookout for him and keep him in your prayers,” his step-daughter, Christine Zampini, wrote on hburgnews.com, “Harrisonburg’s Community News Network.”
The next day, police found Mr. Brown’s 2007 sedan in the Valley Mall parking lot in Harrisonburg. Mr. Brown was in the trunk. He had been shot three times, once point blank in the back of the head. “It was an execution,” said Marsha Garst, the Commonwealth Attorney for Harrisonburg. “A very cruel execution, and absolutely unnecessary for a man who got paid next to nothing to serve divorce papers.” Police searched Mr. Abid’s home and found two recently spent 9mm bullet casings on the driveway. But Mr. Abid was gone.Hmmmm...............Last Seen: Turkey. Abid was last seen in Budapest, Turkey. Read the full story here.