Canadians' Friendly Neighbor to the South

[Ramo]

So, a Canadian from Syria was vacationing in Tunis a little over a year ago, and when the flight stopped over in the US while returning to Canada, the gov't used to opportunity to pick this guy up. They accused him of being an al-Qaeda agent, and decided to deport him. Instead of deporting him to Canada where he's a citizen or Switzerland where his flight came from, he was deported to Syria. Good ol' Ba'athist Syria, where he has a relative in prison for being part of the Muslim Brotherhood and where al-Qaeda suspects aren't treated all that well. So when the Americans handed him over to the authorities in Damascus, the Syrians tortured the **** out of him for nearly a year. The Syrians only recently released him back to Canada thanks to the outcry this event generated.

http://www.counterpunch.org/arar11062003.html

Every new action I hear of taken by our so-called "justice" system manages to be even more surreal than the last.

[Jules]

[techumseh]

Canadian media has unattributed comments from US officials that the US has a policy of deporting suspected AQ people to certain Arab countries where torture is routinely practiced. This apparently is what happened to Arrar, a Canadian citizen and engineer. His misfortune is that his landlord was possibly a real operative - Arrar is most likely not. The landlord is still in Syria being tortured.

Arrar's wife launched a months long campaign to free her husband, and eventually caught the attention of the media, which embarrassed the Canadian government into pressing Syria for his release. Syria, for it's part, seemingly has a quid pro quo with the Bush regime: We'll torture Al Queda suspects for you, and you don't attack us.

[Uncle Sparky]

Old news to me, but still makes me

[Nubclear]

This thread has an anti-american sentiment and no pro-American sentiment, so....

[DaShi]

Yeah! Burn those "Down with the USA" flags. Never did like them.

[Nubclear]

[Space05us]

maybe some day we will teach them to count to 50.

[The Mad Monk]

...or even to thirteen...

[Dinner]

It is interesting to note that the Canadian government was the one who gave this man's name to the American government. The Canadians told us he was an AQ suspect. The US arrested him based upon that information.

[techumseh]

That has yet to be proven, but I suspect it is true. The Canadian government is resisting oppositon calls for an independent inquiry.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
...or even to thirteen...

We already have 13. You don't really keep up with the news, do you...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Oerdin
It is interesting to note that the Canadian government was the one who gave this man's name to the American government. The Canadians told us he was an AQ suspect. The US arrested him based upon that information.

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And then shipped him off to Syria? Thanks...

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
And then shipped him off to Syria? Thanks...

Maybe next time you'll arrest your own people instead of making us deal with it.

[MrFun]

United States has a skewed concept of justice sometimes . . . . .