Why U.S. won't remove Arar from no-fly list

[Newsjock]

Source: The Globe and Mail

COLIN FREEZE
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
October 20, 2007 at 12:21 AM EDT

MINNEAPOLIS — Maher Arar's denials that he ever went to Afghanistan are contradicted by a man convicted of immigration fraud and a self-confessed mujahedeen instructor who says he spotted him there in the early 1990s, according to classified American documents seen by The Globe and Mail.

The intelligence documents are said by U.S. sources to be key to understanding Washington's argument that, even though Mr. Arar has been cleared of any wrongdoing and paid $10-million in compensation by the Canadian government, he should remain on a no-fly list and remain barred from entering U.S. territory as an alleged security threat.

Until now, the files have been accessible only to those with security clearance, and appear to be the invisible hurdle as Mr. Arar fights to clear his name in the United States.

In Minnesota, Mohamed Kamal Elzahabi, a Lebanese-born U.S. resident who once led training-camps in Afghanistan, has been jailed for three years. His case is obscure and his credibility is very much at issue. Earlier this year he was convicted of immigration fraud and still faces outstanding charges of lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. So, did Mr. Elzahabi make this ID with or without multiple spark plugs up his ass?

[Sam Ervin jret]

2. Nice, Under what rules of evidence were the details of this one and only (apparently)conformational

piece of information collected? If they followed the Military Commissions Act Rules for evidence, I'd rather trust my Ouija board.

[lligrd]

3. Now Why Would They Need An Ouija Board

when * could just ask God?

[kitty1]

4. U.S. Lawmakers have finally apologized to Arar...

At a U.S. joint house subcommittee probe into the Arar affair and the American policy of rendition, Democrat Bill Delahunt took the step so far ignored by the Bush government

“Let me personally give you what our government has not: an apology,” Mr. Delahunt said as he opened the hearing. “Let me apologize to you and the Canadian people for our government's role in a mistake

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071018.warar1018/BNStory/Front

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R

[robinlynne]

6. because his name is Arar? (sorry, i just came over from a funny thread.)