Abdelrazik and the US connection

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This is an interesting, if not unexpected, development. It now seems pretty clear why Harper continued to violate Abdelrazik's constitutional rights.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...uild-acase-against-abdelrazik/article1188268/

U.S. asked Canada to help build a case against Abdelrazik


Paul Koring
From Friday's Globe and Mail, Friday, Jun. 19, 2009 01:29AM EDT
Washington attempted to elicit the Harper government's help in putting Abousfian Abdelrazik behind bars, even though American anti-terrorist agents admitted they lacked sufficient evidence to charge him.

Government censors – in a rare failure to black out anything incriminating – let slip a “secret” document, dated July 19, 2006, that reveals a critical set of high-level exchanges between the administration of George W. Bush and the Stephen Harper government.

It was part of a trove of several hundred pages, many of them entirely blacked out, that were released by the government in response to a Privacy Act request by Mr. Abdelrazik.

The document, marked “secret,” shows that the Bush administration knew Sudan was about to release Mr. Abdelrazik from prison in the summer of 2006, and wanted help from Canadian police and anti-terrorism agents to try to charge him.

 

[slowpoke]

This is an interesting, if not unexpected, development. It now seems pretty clear why Harper continued to violate Abdelrazik's constitutional rights.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...uild-acase-against-abdelrazik/article1188268/

U.S. asked Canada to help build a case against Abdelrazik


Paul Koring
From Friday's Globe and Mail, Friday, Jun. 19, 2009 01:29AM EDT
Washington attempted to elicit the Harper government's help in putting Abousfian Abdelrazik behind bars, even though American anti-terrorist agents admitted they lacked sufficient evidence to charge him.

Government censors – in a rare failure to black out anything incriminating – let slip a “secret” document, dated July 19, 2006, that reveals a critical set of high-level exchanges between the administration of George W. Bush and the Stephen Harper government.

It was part of a trove of several hundred pages, many of them entirely blacked out, that were released by the government in response to a Privacy Act request by Mr. Abdelrazik.

The document, marked “secret,” shows that the Bush administration knew Sudan was about to release Mr. Abdelrazik from prison in the summer of 2006, and wanted help from Canadian police and anti-terrorism agents to try to charge him.

I quickly read parts of several articles like this one in today's Globe and Mail. One thing that I hadn't known was that this guy had been suspected of terrorist sympathies even before 9/11. In spite of CSIS and the FBI following him and spying on him etc for many years, nobody ever found enough evidence to charge him with anything. So this whole ordeal was based on nothing but suspicions but it would be just about impossible to make those suspicions go way. Once you're on their list, you're staying there.