TRUTHOUT: Canada May Protest U.S. Treatment of Tortured Man

[The Cleaner]

 
Ottawa - A formal Canadian protest to Washington appeared to be planned on Tuesday as the result of an official inquiry into the U.S. deportation in 2002 of a Canadian citizen to Syria, where he was subsequently tortured.

The government said it agreed with the 23 recommendations by Justice Dennis O'Connor, who headed the inquiry and concluded that Maher Arar was tortured in Syria, the country of his birth, after being arrested in New York on suspicion of involvement with al Qaeda.

"Mr. Arar has been done a tremendous injustice," Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the House of Commons. "The government has received this report that has a series of recommendations... The government will act swiftly based on those recommendations."

Most of the recommendations focus on errors made by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which wrongly told U.S. authorities that Arar was an Islamic extremist. But one recommendation was to "register a formal objection with the governments of the United States and Syria concerning their treatment of Mr. Arar and Canadian officials involved with his case."

Source:http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092006A.shtml
Source for ORIGINAL story: http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-security-canada-arar.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=75c69b16Q2FQ5Bos8Q5BiQ7D0Q5DeQ7DQ7D(Q60Q5BesB(seQ5DQ5B.soQ5DQ5B.soQ5D7Q5Ds0Beg(Q3C70u.uiu7ueuebx(jQ5C

[Richard D]

1. I do hope that this poor guy . . .

. . will sue the pants off of both governments and win. What a horrid injustice.

[ThomCat]

4. He tried and his case was dismissed.

I believe the government claimed National Security or some bullshit.

[MasonJar]

2. Send them all to the Hague! n/t

[Opusnone]

3. You better mind your own business, Canada

You're sitting on thousands of miles of oil sands, aren't you?

Get ready for another "fence".

[LeftistGorilla]

5. no we wont....

or it'll be half-assed...


sadly....

[NotGivingUp]

6. please, please, protest it!!