CSIS went to Syria for confession: Arar rep

[struggle4progress]

Agents from Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Canada's spy agency, secretly visited Syria in late 2002 and obtained copies of Maher Arar's confessions under torture, according to Arar's lawyers.
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Waldman asserted that Canadian agents were interested in Arar because he was in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

Arar's lawyers made these latest revelations in an attempt to force the government to release all documents pertaining to Arar's case to the public.

"You can't seek confidentiality for things that are already public," Waldman told Canadian Press.
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1087046255648_171/?hub=TopStories


Bushistas detained the Canadian Arar in NYC in Sep 02 and sent him to Syria to be tortured; after some months, he was eventually released and no charges have been filed against him.

[Joanne98]

1. The Canadians need to demand that their goverment

quit dealing with the Bushes.

[struggle4progress]

2. And they need to re-examine out-of-control covert agencies.

[pennylane100]

3. What is really shocking about all this is the absence of outrage.

Our government turned over a Canadian citizen to a third country
for the sole purpose of torturing him, without any proof of any wrongdoing and nobody seems to care. This sums up the Bush Legacy.

[struggle4progress]

4. I've seen a few outraged Canadian editorials in recent months.

But it takes grassroots work to keep the story alive.