U.S. asked Canada to help build a case against Abdelrazik

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Source: Globe and Mail

Washington attempted to elicit the Harper government's help in putting Abousfian Abdelrazik behind bars, even though American anti-terrorist agents admitted they lacked sufficient evidence to charge him.

Government censors – in a rare failure to black out anything incriminating – let slip a “secret” document, dated July 19, 2006, that reveals a critical set of high-level exchanges between the administration of George W. Bush and the Stephen Harper government.

... At the time, the Bush administration was only days away from putting Mr. Abdelrazik on the UN Security Council's terrorist blacklist, yet was acknowledging it didn't have sufficient evidence to even charge him and wanted help, as it had received in other cases.

“The document shows the U.S. did not have information that warranted any charges against (Mr. Abdelrazik), nor did Canada or Sudan,” said Paul Champ, one of the lawyers who successfully won a federal court case forcing the Harper government to end years of stalling and repatriate Mr. Abdelrazik. “Yet his life remained a nightmare for years based on suspicion alone,” Mr. Champ added.

Complete document here: http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/00081/abdelrazik-doc_81126a.pdf

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/us-asked-canada-to-help-build-acase-against-abdelrazik/article1188268/

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1. k&r for govt. leakers and whistleblowers n/t