Note word choice: "Mounties, US were wrong on Canadian rendition victim"

[Bucky]

from the Christian Science Monitor (great newspaper, spooky name)


Maher Arar was placed on terror watch list and tortured in Syria because of incorrect information from RCMP.

A Canadian federal inquiry has found that that a Syrian-born Canadian who was seized by US officials at Kennedy Airport in New York in 2002, sent to Syria as a terrorist suspect, tortured, and eventually released after a campaign by his wife, should not have been on the US watch list for terror suspects that led to his ordeal.

The Toronto Star reports the inquiry found that Maher Arar and his wife "were on a US watch list wrongly described as 'Islamic extremist individuals' suspected of being linked to Al Qaeda, based on incorrect information" provided to US authorities by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

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Not a torture victim or a wrongful arrest victim. A "redition victim." Nabbing someone and sending them to a foriegn country--whether you beat them up in prison or not--is inherently unconstitutional. It's the kind of unaccoutable imperial law enforcement technique that inspired another generation of Americans to pick up their muskets and establish a democracy.

[aquart]

1. I hope he still has the right to sue their boots off.

He's a Canadian CITIZEN. And they let him be kidnapped and tortured on OUR word?

[Bucky]

2. Then you, sir, are a terrorist.