Reply #4: But RCMP & CSIS have racked up a bit of a history by now ...

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RCMP raids reporter's offices over Arar case
Updated Thu. Jan. 22 2004 6:36 AM ET
CTV.ca News Staff

Searching for evidence in connection with an alleged leak of confidential information in the Maher Arar case, the RCMP turned its attention to a veteran journalist in Ottawa on Wednesday.

Ten Mounties searched Ottawa Citizen reporter Juliet O'Neill's house for more than five hours Wednesday morning. Another search warrant was executed on her office at the paper's city hall bureau ..

In November, O'Neill wrote a story on the Arar case, which centres around the Ottawa man deported by the United States and subsequently tortured during a year-long detention in Syria.

O'Neill's lawyer, Richard Dearden, would say his client plans to fight, especially since charges could mean a possible 14-year jail sentence .. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20040122/arar_sues040121?s_name=&no_ads=


How Liberal Canada Defied Reason to Terrorize Its Citizens
By MAHBOOB A. KHAWAJA, Ph. D

Editors' Note: On March 29, Canadian police raided the Ottawa home of Mahboob Khawaja, arrested his son based on an indictment from Britain and asked Saudi police to detain Khawaja, who was teaching in Saudi Arabia. No bomb-making materials were discovered in the search. Khawaja was released two weeks later by Saudi police. Here is his account of these startling events. http://www.counterpunch.org/khawaja06232004.html

Aftermath: Complicity of Liberal Canada to Terrorize Citizens
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. http://informationclearinghouse.info/article8444.htm


Evidence Grows That Canada Aided in Having Terrorism Suspects Interrogated in Syria
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Published: September 17, 2005

OTTAWA, Sept. 14 - A judicial inquiry here is turning up evidence that Canadian police and intelligence agencies solicited and used information that was obtained from at least four Canadian citizens under torture by foreign intelligence agencies ..

On Jan. 22, 2002, the Mounties searched Mr. Maati's home in Toronto and seized his trucking travel log books, computer and other personal records. Three days later, the Syrians transferred Mr. Maati to Egypt, where, he said, he was tortured for the next two years ..

In an interview in his house on the outskirts of Ottawa, Mr. Almalki, who Canadian officials thought was the leader of the suspected Qaeda cell, said he went to Syria in May 2002 to visit his ailing grandmother but was seized at the airport. In two years of countless torture sessions, he said, he was repeatedly asked about phone calls he made from Canada, his friends in Canada and how he conducted his Canadian-based business ..

Mr. Almalki and Mr. Maati say they never worked for Al Qaeda or sympathized with the group. Neither has been charged with a crime, although the Canadian investigation of both of them was never officially closed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/international/americas/17canada.html?ei=5090&en=5bc32186f3dc7593&ex=1284609600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all


Canada's prisoners of secret evidence
CBC News Online | May 29, 2006

.. None of those arrested under security certificates has been charged. The government is permitted to detain non-citizens without charges and to withhold evidence if the government believes that it could threaten national security. The prisoners and even their own lawyers are not permitted to see the evidence against them ..

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/realitycheck/20060529gray.html