Arar still fears U.S. arrest

[CHIMO]

Exonerated Canadian's name still on border watch lists

WASHINGTON – Maher Arar was honoured with an international human rights award tonight but, in the latest indignity he's suffered, the U.S. government would not let him travel to the U.S. capital to accept his award in person.

Arar, who now lives in Kamloops, B.C., remains on the U.S. “no-fly list’’ even after he was exonerated in a Canadian judicial inquiry headed by Mr. Justice Dennis O’Connor.

British actor and activist Vanessa Redgrave – who would have presented the award to Arar on behalf of the Institute of Policy Studies – demanded that Washington remove the Canadian man from its electronic data bases that still brand him a terrorist threat.

“When the lead country in the world does that, what do you say to the next Pinochet when he says: `I have to torture in the name of national security.’ We have set the U.S. and the world back 500 years.”

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[Jim Sagle]

1. As do we all.

[madrchsod]

2. we finally agree on something...sigh...

to bad it has to be on this issue and not the other..

[Jim Sagle]

3. This one's a HELL of a lot more important, don't you think?

I've given that other issue very little thought in recent weeks...there will be no other issues for me until we run this nest of ghouls out of office.