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This is a primary example of a man losing rights due to the "War on Terror."
Americans, for instance, denied Arar's request to speak with the Canadian consulate in New York after he was taken into custody there, a violation of international agreements.
And the FBI kept Canadians in the dark about Arar's whereabouts even while he was in the air on his way to Jordan, then Syria.
cnews.canoe.ca...
"better ten guilty men go free than one innocent be punished"
Originally posted by jsobecky
This is a primary example of a man losing rights due to the "War on Terror."
I disagree. This incident was a result of false intelligence supplied by Canada.
Originally posted by djohnsto77There's absolutely nothing wrong that either the U.S. or Canada did, if you want to blame someone blame Syria.
Originally posted by Rasobasi420
It's the spirit of the quote that matters. I'm sure you could lock the entire muslim population up in a concentration camp, and be safe.
At this point, and I'm sure there are many who agree, I'm more afraid of our own government than terrorists. I've been beaten, arrested and denied my own rights as a citizen by this same government.
And....No Muslim ever called me 'n-word'
[edit on 20-9-2006 by Rasobasi420]
Originally posted by LogansRun
You say there is nothing wrong with what the US or Canada did. This was a canadian citizen. He lived, worked and had a family there. He had done nothing wrong. At what point will this be considered wrong?
The inquiry, which focused on the Canadian intelligence services, found that agents who were under pressure to find terrorists after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, falsely labeled an Ottawa computer consultant, Maher Arar, as a dangerous radical. They asked U.S. authorities to put him and his wife, a university economist, on the al-Qaeda "watchlist," without justification, the report said.