Canada 'rejects' CIA Waterboarding evidence

Canada 'rejects' CIA Waterboarding evidence

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The Canadian government is no longer using evidence gained from CIA interrogations of a top Al Qaeda detainee who was waterboarded.

According to documents obtained by NEWSWEEK, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the country's national-security agency, last month quietly withdrew statements by alleged Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah from public papers outlining the case against two alleged terror "sleeper" operatives in Ottawa and Montreal.

The move, which so far has received no public attention, is the latest sign of potential international fallout from the CIA's recent confirmation that it waterboarded a handful of high-profile Al Qaeda suspects in 2002 and 2003. The use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques were approved by the Bush White House and Justice Department. Waterboarding, which critics charge is a form of torture, involves strapping a suspect to an inclined board and forcing water into his lungs, typically by pouring water through a cloth placed over his nose and mouth.

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Good for Canada. At least SOMEBODY can hold our criminal gov and their co-horts accountable. Hopefully Canada doesn't flip-flop on this like they did when they put the states on a torture watch-list. Somebody needs to take a stand against these maniacs.

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remember they said that the USA should be on the terror watch list then `retracted` that statement - reading above , they didn`t retract it at all and still believe that the US should be on the terror watch list.

If the revolutionary guard in iran is on the terror list, then so should some US security services.

But really, torture doesn't work - reasonable people have known that for a long time.

Perhaps they just enjoyed doing it - wouldn't surprise me...