CITIZEN ALERT v1.53
PROOF THAT THE WORLD IS GREY
As much as conservatives like to claim the world is black and white so they can push their fear agenda, today's stunning story (coming as no great shock to me BTW) lays to rest the debate once and for all that while they may talk up a black and white world they ply their trade in a very grey one.
From the Washington Post today comes this story:
Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday.
Syria! The same country who in 2003 Rumsfeld accused of permitting Islamic "jihadis" to infiltrate Iraq to fight U.S. troops. The same country that Bush issued an Executive Order Blocking Property and Prohibiting the Export of Certain Goods to Syria. The same country that for years has always been "next on the list" to be knocked down by the United States.
So why would we be allowing this?
The inquiry, which focused on the Canadian intelligence services, found that agents who were under pressure to find terrorists after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, falsely labeled an Ottawa computer consultant, Maher Arar, as a dangerous radical. They asked U.S. authorities to put him and his wife, a university economist, on the al-Qaeda "watchlist," without justification, the report said.
Arar, now 36, was detained by U.S. authorities as he changed planes in New York on Sept. 26, 2002. He was held for questioning for 12 days, then flown by jet to Jordan and driven to Syria. He was beaten, forced to confess to having trained in Afghanistan -- where he never has been -- and then kept in a coffin-size dungeon for 10 months before he was released, the Canadian inquiry commission found.
O'Connor concluded "categorically there is no evidence" that Arar did anything wrong or was a security threat.
Although the report centered on Canadian actions, the counsel for the commission, Paul Cavalluzzo, said the results show that the U.S. practice of [extraordinary] renditions "ought to be reviewed."
Reviewed!? How about halted?! No, information coming from a guy who's been in a coffin size room is worth anything.
From the Washington Post today comes this story:
Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday.
Syria! The same country who in 2003 Rumsfeld accused of permitting Islamic "jihadis" to infiltrate Iraq to fight U.S. troops. The same country that Bush issued an Executive Order Blocking Property and Prohibiting the Export of Certain Goods to Syria. The same country that for years has always been "next on the list" to be knocked down by the United States.
So why would we be allowing this?
The inquiry, which focused on the Canadian intelligence services, found that agents who were under pressure to find terrorists after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, falsely labeled an Ottawa computer consultant, Maher Arar, as a dangerous radical. They asked U.S. authorities to put him and his wife, a university economist, on the al-Qaeda "watchlist," without justification, the report said.
Arar, now 36, was detained by U.S. authorities as he changed planes in New York on Sept. 26, 2002. He was held for questioning for 12 days, then flown by jet to Jordan and driven to Syria. He was beaten, forced to confess to having trained in Afghanistan -- where he never has been -- and then kept in a coffin-size dungeon for 10 months before he was released, the Canadian inquiry commission found.
O'Connor concluded "categorically there is no evidence" that Arar did anything wrong or was a security threat.
Although the report centered on Canadian actions, the counsel for the commission, Paul Cavalluzzo, said the results show that the U.S. practice of [extraordinary] renditions "ought to be reviewed."
Reviewed!? How about halted?! No, information coming from a guy who's been in a coffin size room is worth anything.
posted by Bobot Adrenaline at 9:30 PM
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