Canadian spymaster’s card found in Gadhafi’s intelligence complex
After the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, more than a half-dozen Canadian Arabs spent months or years imprisoned in their countries of birth, eventually emerging to claim they were fingered as terrorists by Canadian authorities. Government inquiries into some of these cases found CSIS and RCMP officials had circulated inflammatory and sometimes misleading information that could have led to the foreign detentions – and also that federal security agents had blocked overtures by Ottawa to help the Canadian citizens once they were detained abroad.
Judicial inquiries into Canadian complicity in torture abroad looked at events in Syria and Egypt, but never pulled back the curtain on the links to Libya. There, a Libyan-Canadian named Mustafa Krer was jailed upon arrival in 2002, having previously been put under surveillance in Canada. Canadian court documents have since surfaced to accuse Mr. Krer of being “a former leader of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.”
Last fall, Mr. Krer went public with his story of having been detained for eight years in Libya, where he says the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and CSIS intelligence officers had put questions to him.
“The CIA and CSIS and other agencies were trying to make out that this Libyan Islamic group was like al-Qaeda. It is not,” Mr. Krer told The Globe and Mail. He did not deny ties to Libyan Islamic Fighting Group jihadists, but said he was never a terrorist. He did not identify the specific CIA and CSIS operatives involved in his interrogations.
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