More liars, deceits and "sorry you were tortured"!
- /photo: The Syrian-Canadian, Maher Arar and his wife/
According to the Canadian newspaper, the Post’s lead:
“A couple of years ago, President Bush might well have counted Maher Arar as one of the success stories of the CIA's secret program for detaining and interrogating suspected terrorists. Mr. Arar, a Canadian citizen, was arrested at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 because he was on a watchlist. Canadian police said they believed he had connections to al-Qaeda. Rather than being returned to Canada, Mr. Arar disappeared into the CIA's secret system -- he was transported to Syria and handed over to its military intelligence service. For several weeks, Mr. Arar was tortured by his Syrian captors, who beat him with an electric cable. Eventually he broke and confessed that he had trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan.”So what’s the problem, in the Post’s view? “The problem with this story, as an official Canadian investigation reported Monday, is that Mr. Arar was innocent.” So it would have been just swell if only he had been, maybe, a little guilty, or at least, still in legal limbo with all the others?
OTTAWA (CP) - RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli won't quit over the Maher Arar affair. He didn't offer to resign right after Justice Dennis O'Connor issued his withering report on RCMP blunders which contributed to Arar's deportation to Syria by U.S. authorities and doesn't plan to resign now, he told a Commons committee. The commissioner, who is fighting to keep his job as the country's top policeman, was by turns contrite and defiant as he testified Thursday. - "Sorry, you were tortured"....++
It makes you wonder: where did the Canadian RCMP-commissioner get all of his discriminating information to send an innocent man to another country to be tortured? Were the "sources of information" considered legitimate and trustworthy, without question? Is this the Canadian Harper-government's and the Bush-New World Order's way of handling things from now on, the KGB-Stasi way, where the experienced (ex-KGB now US Homeland Security!) and Yevgenij (Finkelstein) Primakof .... and Markus Wolf (East-Germany's ex-Stasi agent, now counsillor for the Bush-administration in the fight against terrorism, author of "Patriot II") shall give the directions? /Hazánkért/
