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Matter Of Arar's Place On Security Watch List 'closed': U.S. Ambassador

Posted on Saturday, March 03 at 15:17 by Anonymous
The telecommunications engineer was detained by U.S. officials in New York in 2002 and deported to Syria, where he was tortured while imprisoned for 10 months. He received a formal apology and $10.5 million in compensation from Ottawa after the federal inquiry cleared him and said the RCMP provided misleading information about him to the United States before he was deported. http://www.680news.com/news/national/article.jsp?content=n030171A

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  1. by boflaade
    Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:17 pm
    "The agencies that looked at that and their leaders all concluded that the action had been appropriate," he said. "We'll stand by that action and so now we move on."

    In other words "don't bring it up again, we have spoken" Obviously Canada screwed up and the credibility of their information isn't going to change a past decision by the USA.

    "The ambassador also said the issue won't affect U.S.-Canada relations"

    We may assume then that the term "Canada" in the context of his speach, does not refer to "Canadians".

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