Canadian Agency Knew About U.S. Renditions In 2002, Report Says

The revelations come a day after a Canadian federal judge ordered the release of details the government had withheld for national-security reasons. The inquiry, led by Canadian judge Dennis O'Connor, was into the case of Arar, who was flown to Syria after U.S. officials arrested him on a stopover in John F. Kennedy International Airport and accused him of links to al-Qaeda. O'Connor's findings came out last September. The probe found Canadian police gave inaccurate information to the U.S. about Arar and leaked secret details to the media to hurt his reputation, and that Arar was jailed and tortured while in Syria. It also found Canadian officials weren't directly involved in sending him to the Middle East. `Have Their Way' According to the new version of the report, a Canadian official wrote a memo to his superiors on Oct. 10, 2002, saying, ``I think the U.S. would like to get Arar to Jordan where they can have their way with him.'' The original and new versions of the report say Canadian officials didn't know where Arar was at the time the memo was written. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a0d4utHAjOyA&refer=canada#

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