Canadian was falsely accused, panel says

[rpannier]

Muslim held by U.S. was sent to Syria for interrogation

TORONTO, Sept. 18 - Canadian intelligence officials passed false warnings and bad information to American agents about a Muslim Canadian citizen, after which U.S. authorities secretly whisked him to Syria, where he was tortured, a judicial report found Monday.

The report, released in Ottawa, was the result of a 2 1/2-year inquiry that represented one of the first public investigations into mistakes made as part of the United States' "extraordinary rendition" program, which has secretly spirited suspects to foreign countries for interrogation by often brutal methods.

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.

the full article can be found at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14897315/

on note: I thought the "scrub gang" said Syria was a hinderance in the war on terror. And I thought we only arrested and detained terrorists.
Further proof we're f**king this whole thing up.

[Kutjara]

1. We're fighting Canadians over there so we don't...

...oh never mind.

[Raksha]

2. Shrub wanted immunity from lawsuits in his legalize-torture bill, right?

I seem to remember reading something like that. Now I see what he was getting at.

[Chipper Chat]

3. "Let the E-e-e-e-e-e-gul soar-R-r-R-rrrrr"

"like he's never tortured befor-Rrrrrrrr"