Canada still demanding U.S. take Canadian off its terror watchlist

[sabra]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/23/america/NA-GEN-Canada-Torture.php

Canada still demanding U.S. take Canadian off its terror watchlist
The Associated Press


TORONTO: Canada on Tuesday resumed its tussle with the United States over the extraordinary rendition case of Maher Arar, insisting the Canadian citizen who was shipped to Syria by U.S. authorities should be taken off U.S. watchlists.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day, responding to a letter from senior U.S. officials that claimed intelligence in Washington indicated Arar belongs on the watchlists, said Ottawa would continue to press its case to have the engineer's name cleared.

"We're aware that the United States has other information ... It simply does not alter our opinion that Mr. Arar is not a threat, nor is his family," Day said.

Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, is the best-known case of extraordinary rendition, a practice in which the U.S. government sends foreign terror suspects to third countries for interrogation.

He was detained at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport in 2002 during a stopover on his way home to Canada from a vacation with his family in Tunisia. The United States turned him over to Syria, where he says he was tortured and kept in a dark cell for nearly a year.

[derby378]

1. "If he didn't hate America before, he sure hates us now..."

:mad:

[Double T]

2. The US will NEVER admit that THEY made a mistake,............

no one should wonder why travel to the USA is down; during a vacation YOU might end up being sent to a foreign nation to be tortured; just another bushco national disgrace.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Correction

The US Bush regime will NEVER admit that THEY made a mistake

[doublethink]

3. Worth re-posting Leahy's smack-down of Gonzales (Gonzal-ass)

of last week on this subject .... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x13166

Peace.

[The Stranger]

4. That is why it is so Kafkaesque -- you cannot get off the list, especially Muslims and non-Whites.

[pinniped]

6. Canada should make its own terra watch list and make those wh POSs....

the first entries.

[Bassic]

7. We're about to get our own no-fly list....

I guess that's a stard :grr:

This is so fucking stupid.

[MasonJar]

8. Every time I hear that story I see brilliant red. No one deserves

rendition more than W.