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chattyNow Playing: Sen Patrick Leahy ..... wants answers of why rendition and tortured victim is still banned from the USA
Topic: TORTURE
US Senator Leahy, seeks answers in botched Canadian terror case: report 12-20-06 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061220/pl_afp/canadaussyriaattacks
The incoming chair of the powerful US senate judiciary committee has vowed to get to the bottom of an alleged rendition of a Canadian man wrongly accused of terrorist ties, a Canadian newspaper said.Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy told the Toronto Star in an interview published Wednesday that he would summon (sic) US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before the committee to explain why Maher Arar is still barred from the United States, after he was cleared of terrorist links by a Canadian judicial inquiry.
"The Canadian government has now documented that the wrong thing was done to the wrong man," Leahy told the newspaper. "It is time for the (Bush) administration to do what it can to redress this wrong, instead of perpetuating it."
Arar was stopped in New York, on his way to Canada from a trip to Tunisia in September 2002, and was deported to Syria where he was jailed and tortured for more than a year.Ottawa asked Washington to remove the 36-year-old software engineer from their surveillance list after he was exonerated in September. But the US ambassador to Ottawa said last week that Arar remains on the watch list.
The botched terrorism case has gripped Canada
and led to the resignation earlier this month of the
nation's top cop, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
(RCMP) Commissioner Guiliano Zaccardelli.
A Canadian government report found that faulty intelligence (again!!) provided to US authorities by the RCMP had likely led to Arar's detention and deportation to Syria.Ottawa protested to Washington and Damascus over Arar's treatment, but Syria denies the torture claims and the United states has refused to accept blame for any wrongdoing in the case.
Senator Leahy said he would also question Gonzales about the US government's alleged widespread use of "extraordinary rendition" -- the clandestine seizing and transfer of terror suspects to allied nations that condone torture."It's not just this individual case," he said. "But what does this say when someone's plane stops here, they have citizenship in a neighboring country and we ship them back to Syria.""This is beneath our country. And, it does absolutely nothing to make us more secure and it is a gross human rights violation."
Now Z3 Readers this is exactly the frickin question I have been asking for over a year here in the Zebra 3 Report. What in the hell is this Bush Administration doing to people...and in many many case they are doing this to INNOCENT people. WE are the ASHOLES of the WORLD, thanks to this demented screwed up policies by our devil leading Military and Executive branch
---GOOD OLD USA HAVE BECOME THE ASSHOLES OF THE WORLD THANKS TO BUSH- CHENEY- CONZALES, -ASSCROFT, -RUMSFELD, -RICE, AND A slew OF OTHER SICK-O-s
I have posted at least three reports here in the Zebra 3 report on this topic of the illegal and fucked up case of Maher Arar ......
** You can check out these previous post I put up right here: **
1. index.blog?entry_id=1588960
2. index.blog?entry_id=1561962
3. index.blog?entry_id=1559684
