Canada's Blind Eye To 'Torture'

Posted on Sunday, April 24 at 10:43 by shadowibis
Reports detail his Nov. 3, 2002 meeting with Gen. Khalil of the Syrian military intelligence, describing how Pillarella asked for a copy of information obtained by the Syrians to take back to Canada. The summary, later translated from Arabic to English and called "Arar's confession," said the computer engineer spent time in terrorist training camps. "While I was perishing in a Syrian dungeon, Mr. Pillarella asked for my interrogation reports, and there is no evidence in the documents that he was at all concerned with the methods they were using to get that information," Arar angrily reacted in a statement. Full article: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8635.htm

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  1. Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:38 pm
    There's quite a few different articles out there on this incident (3 in the Toronto Star alone). What really frustrates me about this is how CSIS can just black out what it would deem "security issues" and we will never be able to know if that was the case or not. It could be just bad intelligence, no intelligence, or what the hell are we even paying you for? Who needs this kind of security? Who needs spys? It's infintile games.

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    "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:00 am
    Time to liquidate the ottawa trash.They are the same as washington.So much for being a nice country.

  3. by avatar Jesse
    Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:21 am
    Doesn't CSIS have to follow the Freedom of Information rules to some extent?

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    Canadians are asking, why do americans hate us? They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to disagree with each other.

  4. Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:58 pm
    And so we the sheeple of kind, polite, peace-making Canada so constantly at the ready to jump at yet another reason to hate America and Americans were the perfect target of our government's misinformation campaign to blame the entire Arar "incident" on America. If memory serves correctly Arar held citizenship in two countries. Syria and Canada. Being on an American "watchlist", based upon information provided by the government of Canada, the Americans determined upon his arrival to their country that he must be deported off American soil as a "security threat". They first (at Arar's request) attempt to make clearance with Canadian authorities for his deportation to Canada, Arar's first choice. The Canadian authorities refuse him entry. The Americans, following their policy which states you must deport people to the country in which they hold citizenship (which Arar did by birth and by passport in Syria) deported him to Syria, again at Canada's request. The Canadian government, knowing how high the level of hatred towards Americans within Canada took the easy way out. They denied everything, and blamed it on America. Extremist groups within Canada eager for yet another reason to hate Americans snapped it right up instantaneously without even the slightest hesitation. Went so perfectly according to the LIEberal government plan, as to be scary. It became such a good piece of "enightened", "progressive", "Canadiana", that the growing tide of Arar popularity and anti-American sentiment even helped Arar's wife become a leader in politics within her riding after the opportunist, "Laytonized" beyond all recognition, NDP seized the moment. Of course under the shrewd tutledge of 'ol Jack (not being one to miss an opportunity to exploit) always quick to be there to "work" the propensity to hate that comes "built-in" all Canadians to his own personal advantage.

  5. Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:30 pm
    So, because the government sanctioned it, we should just be all OK with the fact that our government deported a citizen to another country to be tortured? Yea, sure, the US deported him to Jordan first, but that's OK, so long as they didn't torture a Canadian Citizen on US soil.

    I guess it's ok with you, because your name doesn't appear on any watch lists . . .yet.

    Oh, wait a minute, it wasn't one citizen . . .it was two. Guess that makes it more OK with you. Good thing these guys were criminals and charged with being terrorists.


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