Canadian Claims Mistreatment by U.S Agents

[Eugene]

Canadian Claims Mistreatment by U.S Agents

By BETH DUFF-BROWN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, April 19, 2006; 4:14 AM

TORONTO -- Akhil Sachdeva, an accountant from India who emigrated to Canada,
still wonders why he was seized at gunpoint by U.S. agents and held for months
with hundreds of foreigners following the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Chaining him to a bench at the FBI's Manhattan office on Dec. 20, 2001,
federal agents demanded to know his religious and political beliefs, asked
whether he had taken flying lessons and sought his personal views about the suicide
hijackers, he said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The 33-year-old is among eight foreign detainees who have sued U.S. officials,
contending they were mistreated and terrorized by snarling dogs during four months
at the Passaic County Jail in New Jersey. The class-action lawsuit is open to some
800 foreign-born detainees who were held for roughly the same amount of time.

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Sachdeva, now a Canadian citizen, is seeking undisclosed financial compensation
for his ordeal by joining the federal lawsuit filed in New York against senior
U.S. officials, including FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General
John Ashcroft.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/19/AR2006041900446.html

[izzie]

1. Well I do not want him to have tax payers money for stuff these

nuts are doing in my name but guess I do not have much say.

[shadowknows69]

2. Where was the Canadian government when this happened?

Did they even try to help their citizen?

[Kagemusha]

3. I note the phrase "now a Canadian citizen"

Perhaps he was not then?

Not that it'd matter. Canada has a now notoriously low level of diplomatic concern for its citizens abroad, particularly anything to do with American jurisdiction.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Are you saying redress of grievances is wrong?

Something PROPER and CORRECT is happening here.

You worry about where your taxes are going?

There are far worse things that you're paying for right now.

[izzie]

5. I think the man should be paid for what gov. did wrong but

I do not like to have to do this as a tax payer. It is all wrong and I do not like what this gov. is doing in my name.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Yup. They're making all kinds of "mistakes"

And the taxpayer funds all of it. The rich, a little less than before.

[izzie]

7. How does one ever get to this so called 'ruling' crooks?

Drives me up a wall.