Canadian PM to apologize to torture victim

[walldude]

C&L has a few links on this.

"Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will give a formal apology to Maher Arar, the Canadian software engineer whom the United States detained and extradited to Syria, where he was brutally tortured.

The announcement, which appears to be a public rebuke of the official U.S. position that Arar may be a terrorist, is set for 12:15, according to Harper's office. Arar will hold a separate news conference at 2 p.m."

UPDATE: C&Ler STOP George tipped us to this new development: A Canadian Commission on the extraordinary rendition case of Maher Arar has recommended that the RCMP withhold information from countries with "questionable human rights records". That's right, folks, the former shining beacon of democracy is now considered by Canada to have a questionable human rights record. How proud our Founding Fathers must be

So we are now "officially" human rights violators. This link tells about Sen Patrick Leahy's attempts to get an explanation from Gonzalez on how this happened. As you can guess he's not having much luck.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002419.php



The rest of the story is here:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/category/terrorism/

[livingonearth]

1. What????

:wow:

[walldude]

3. Welcome to DU..

Yeah that was kind of my response...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. I heard on the 'ra-di-o' that the Canadian Gov will be paying him $8 mil for

pain and suffering... good for him, and serves them right!

[DianaForRussFeingold]

4. 'Sorry' An Apology to the World for the Re-Election of George W. Bush.

Olbermann demands an apology from the President. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4026U4QXjE Keith spoke for many of us!
:kick: