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Bringing it back to what started it all...
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Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:47:51 GMT
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Turns out that Mr. Arar was a *Canadian* citizen who was born in Syria.
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2007/01/tale-of-two-governments.html
"Maher Arar is a computer engineer and Canadian citizen who was abducted by the
U.S. Government in 2002 and sent to Syria for a year to be tortured despite
having no terrorist ties of any kind"
"Today, this is what the Canadian Government did about this grotesque travesty:
Canada's prime minister apologized to Maher Arar on Friday and announced the
government would compensate him C$10.5 million (US$8.9 million) for its role in
his deportation from the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured while held in
prison for nearly a year. . . ."
And what is GWB doing? Nada--
"Two lawsuits challenging the government's practice of rendition, in which
terror suspects are seized and delivered to detention centers overseas, were
dismissed after the government raised the secrets privilege.
One plaintiff, Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was detained while changing
planes in New York and was taken to Syria, where he has said he was held in a
tiny cell and beaten with electrical cables. . . .
The United States never made public any evidence linking either man to
terrorism, and both cases are widely viewed as mistakes. Arar's lawsuit was
dismissed in February on separate but similar grounds from the secrets
privilege, a decision he is appealing."
Nothing to see here--Gov't Secrets that you can't ask about!!
Can it get worse? Of course it can--
"Not only did the Bush administration block Mahar's efforts to seek justice in
our courts for having been abducted and tortured, but they continue to keep him
on the no-fly list despite the whole case having been a mistake from the
beginning and despite the increasingly angry protests from the Canadian
Government"
A case of mistaken identity which the US gov't still won't correct.
Yeah, any sense of moral authority coming from the US administration and/or the
sychophants that continue to support them--not worth a hill 'o beans.
At least (hopefully), my gov't is learning that when you try to be friendly to
scorpions, you just may get stung--
"UPDATE: Via Attaturk and C&L, the Canadian report specifically recommended that
the Canadian Goverment "review their policies governing the circumstances in
which they supply information to foreign governments with questionable human
rights records," and specifically urged that "information should never be
provided to a foreign country where there is a credible risk that it will cause
or contribute to the use of torture." "
Yeah, about the information that we usually give the US? Well, not so much
anymore...
Isn't the very act of deportation to send the person back to his or her own
country? John, you're my friend but in this case, put a sock in it. Your
government sent one of my fellow citizens to a country that tortured him.
Dave K
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