US ambassador slams Canada for pushing to have Arar taken off watch list
EDMONTON (CP) - American Ambassador David Wilkins has bluntly told Canada to back off in its efforts to have Maher Arar removed from the U.S. security watch list, saying Canada wouldn't stand for it if the situation were reversed.
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A Canadian inquiry exonerated Arar last fall and concluded RCMP gave U.S. authorities misleading information before he was deported, held and tortured for more than a year in a Syrian jail.
So we are responsible for sending Arar to another country to be tortured because our government wrongly thought he was a terrorist, and even though he has been exonerated, we are not going to take him off our watch list. We were wrong, and Arar was tortured because we were wrong, and now he is on our watch list because we were wrong. Arar is suing the US Government for the horrible things that happened to him because of the US Government's mistake, but he probably won't even be allowed in our country to seek justice. Cue the Twilight Zone theme music.
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