Canadian's Lawyers Blame U.S.

Arar's attorneys said they would call for a criminal investigation of Canadian authorities for their role in Arar's transfer to Syria and his interrogation there, which Arar said included beatings and more than 10 months of confinement in a coffin-size dungeon. Testimony given during the inquiry this week described extensive and highly organized involvement with Syria by both Canadian and U.S. officials, which was ongoing by 2002. According to the testimony, those involved included Canadian legal advisers, diplomats and members of the CIA and FBI, all of whom regularly approved giving the Syrians intelligence and other information to be used in interrogations. "I was very surprised that what seems to be in place is a mechanism for fairly routine sharing of important information" with Syria, Edwardh said after the testimony ended. "We are exposing people to the risk of torture while offering to work with those regimes. It's shocking. It shouldn't happen." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001980_pf.html

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