tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post8995611765409210757..comments2023-10-09T05:28:35.705-07:00Comments on Creekside: Khadr, Arar, and AbdelrazikAlisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-39026996339313743282009-05-06T09:09:00.000-07:002009-05-06T09:09:00.000-07:00Good to know someone shares my suspicions.
I wond...Good to know someone shares my suspicions.<br /><br />I wonder if we'll ever get to the bottom of all that has really happened in Canada in the last few years.<br /><br />We took away the RCMP's security mandate in the 1980s to prevent this sort of thing. Obviously they got it back anyways. Secrecy invites abuse.RevDavehttp://terribledepths.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-82602011675295995592009-05-05T22:23:00.000-07:002009-05-05T22:23:00.000-07:00Arar's arrest wasn't or at least wasn't just to do...<I>Arar's arrest wasn't or at least wasn't just to do information from Khadr..."</I>Agreed. Likewise Abdelrazik felt so oppressed by the constant surveillance that he was under in Canada that at one point he put in a complaint to the RCMP.<br /><br />No, I'm seeing something darker here - the abuse of a child, the waterboarding of a half-wit 83 times, to elicit false confessions, predetermined results, the naming of particular names.<br />G&M April 28, 2009<br />"More than 16 months after Canada's security agencies cleared Abousfian Abdelrazik, government lawyers are now pressing him to admit to being a senior al-Qaeda operative, echoing American accusations apparently extracted from Abu Zubaydah, the al-Qaeda leader water boarded more than 80 times under the Bush administration."<br /><br />Re Judd : That is also the take of Dave at The Galloping Beaver.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-46902597277825909592009-05-05T19:45:00.000-07:002009-05-05T19:45:00.000-07:00That's a good title. I hope there is such a book.
...That's a good title. I hope there is such a book.<br /><br />To fill in a few details - Arar's arrest wasn't or at least wasn't just to do information from Khadr, because he'd come to U.S. attention earlier, at least when the RCMP sent over their "O Canada" database wholesale to the FBI and (I think) CIA. It might have been a final confirmation, but the wheels had already been set in motion.<br /><br />Given the new evidence (however fragmentary), I do wonder at Jim Judd's suggestion a few months ago that SIRC investigate Abdelrazik's case. Maybe he was just trying to tide things over until he could retire?RevDavehttp://terribledepths.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com