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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As I understand this story, the U.S. depended on
Canadian officials as to the status of this "Innocent Man" and he was deported
to Syria based on information from Canada. Is this true, or am I
wrong? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At any rate, mistakes do happen and perhaps the
U.S. officials should have checked out the validity of the claims by the
Canadian Immigration people more closely. I am sure that Ted and Joe would
have made sure, beyond the word of officials of this guy's own government, that
he should not have been deported to Syria. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Point being, we have all heard the story now
boys. You can stop trying to make it appear the United States purposefully
exiled an innocent man to a country where our government knew he would be beaten
and mistreated. I know it is difficult for you both to just let such an
opportunity drop but, believe me, it is no longer current news. Get over
it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dick S</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=starbliss@gmail.com href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">Ted Moffett</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=joekc@adelphia.net
href="mailto:joekc@adelphia.net">Joe Campbell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:25
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Innocent Man
Sent to Syria and Tortured</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Joe et. al.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Of course not.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>What do you call those who seize an innocent man, kidnap him to
a foreign nation against his will beyond help, deny him access to review
of his imprisonment by any court or judge or any resemblance to
the fundamental legal protections of habeas corpus, beat him, interrogate him,
and take a year of his life away? </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Defenders of freedom! </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm">http://www.lectlaw.com/def/h001.htm</A></DIV>
<DIV>
<P>In Brown v. Vasquez, 952 F.2d 1164, 1166 (9th Cir. 1991), cert. denied, 112
S.Ct. 1778 (1992), the court observed that the Supreme Court has "recognized
the fact that`[t]he writ of habeas corpus is the fundamental instrument for
safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.'
Harris v. Nelson, 394 U.S. 286, 290-91 (1969). " Therefore, the writ must be
"administered with the initiative and flexibility essential to insure that
miscarriages of justice within its reach are surfaced and corrected." Harris,
394 U.S. at 291. </P></DIV>
<DIV>Ted Moffett<BR><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 9/19/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Joe
Campbell</B> <<A
href="mailto:joekc@adelphia.net">joekc@adelphia.net</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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Ted! You don't want anyone to think that you're supporting terrorists with
this post, do you?<BR><BR>Best, Joe<BR><BR>---- Ted Moffett <<A
href="mailto:starbliss@gmail.com">starbliss@gmail.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR>=============<BR><A
href="http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/innocent-man-sent-to-syria-and-tortured/20060918232609990016?ncid=NWS00010000000001">http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/innocent-man-sent-to-syria-and-tortured/20060918232609990016?ncid=NWS00010000000001</A><BR><BR>Innocent
Man Sent to Syria and Tortured, Probe Finds<BR>Canadian Report Faults
Mounties, U.S. for Deportation<BR>By ROB GILLIES, AP<BR><BR><BR>TORONTO
(Sept. 19) - The United States "very likely" sent a Canadian<BR>software
engineer to Syria, where he was tortured, based on the false<BR>accusation
by Canadian authorities that he was suspected of links to <BR>al-Qaida,
according to a new government report.<BR><BR>Syrian-born Maher Arar was
exonerated of all suspicion of terrorist activity<BR>by the 2 1/2-year
commission of inquiry into his case, which urged the<BR>Canadian government
to offer him financial compensation. Arar is perhaps the <BR>world's
best-known case of extraordinary rendition -- the U.S. transfer
of<BR>foreign terror suspects to third countries without court
approval.<BR><BR>"I am able to say categorically that there is no evidence
to indicate that <BR>Mr. Arar has committed any offense or that his
activities constitute a<BR>threat to the security of Canada," Justice Dennis
O'Connor said Monday in a<BR>three-volume report on the findings of the
inquiry, part of which was made <BR>public.<BR><BR>Arar was traveling on a
Canadian passport when he was detained at New York's<BR>Kennedy Airport on
Sept. 26, 2002, on his way home from vacation in Tunisia.<BR><BR>Arar said
U.S. authorities sent him to Syria for interrogation as a <BR>suspected
member of al-Qaida, a link he denied.<BR><BR>He spent nearly a year in
prison in Syria and made detailed allegations<BR>after his release in 2003
about extensive interrogation, beatings and<BR>whippings with electrical
cables. <BR><BR>O'Connor criticized the U.S. and recommended that Ottawa
file formal<BR>protests with both Washington and the Syrian government over
Arar's<BR>treatment.<BR><BR>"The American authorities who handled Mr. Arar's
case treated Mr. Arar in a <BR>most regrettable fashion," O'Connor wrote.
"They removed him to Syria<BR>against his wishes and in the face of his
statements that he would be<BR>tortured if sent there. Moreover, they dealt
with Canadian officials <BR>involved with Mr. Arar's case in a less than
forthcoming manner."<BR><BR>The U.S. is already under intense criticism from
human rights groups over<BR>the practice of sending suspects to countries
where they could be tortured. <BR><BR>U.S. and Syrian officials refused to
cooperate with the Canadian inquiry.<BR><BR>The commission found the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police shared information<BR>about Arar with American
anti-terrorist agencies both before and after he <BR>was
detained.<BR><BR>The RCMP asked the U.S. to put Arar on a watch list as an
"Islamic extremist<BR>individual" suspected of links to the al-Qaida
terrorist movement, the<BR>report said.<BR><BR>The request was issued after
Arar met with another man who was under <BR>surveillance, a meeting Arar has
said was about how to find inexpensive<BR>computer equipment.<BR><BR>"The
RCMP had no basis for this description, which had the potential to<BR>create
serious consequences for Mr. Arar in light of American attitudes and
<BR>practices," the report said.<BR><BR>The RCMP described Arar as the
"target" of a domestic anti-terrorist<BR>investigation in Canada when in
fact he was a peripheral figure who had come<BR>under suspicion only because
he had been seen in the company of the man who <BR>was under surveillance,
the report found.<BR><BR>O'Connor said that much of the material shared with
U.S. authorities had not<BR>been double-checked to ensure its accuracy and
reliability -- a violation of<BR>the RCMP's usual rules for divulging
information to foreign agencies. <BR><BR>O'Connor concluded that the
inaccurate information passed by Canadian police<BR>to U.S. authorities
"very likely" led to their decision to send Arar to<BR>Syria.<BR><BR>"It's
quite clear that the RCMP sent inaccurate information to U.S.<BR>officials,"
Arar said at a news conference in Ottawa. "I would have not have<BR>even
been sent to Syria had this information not been given to them."<BR><BR>"I
have waited a long time to have my name cleared. I was tortured and lost
<BR>a year of my life. I will never be the same," Arar said. "The United
States<BR>must take responsibility for what it did to me and must stop
destroying more<BR>innocent lives with its unlawful actions."<BR><BR>The
commission concluded there was no evidence Canadian
officials<BR>participated in or agreed to the decision to send Arar to
Syria. But<BR>O'Connor recommended that in the future, information should
never be<BR>provided to a foreign country where there is a credible risk
that it will <BR>cause or contribute to the use of torture.<BR><BR>Most of
the judge's 23 policy recommendations centered on the RCMP and<BR>emphasized
the need to improve the force's internal policies for national<BR>security
investigations and the sharing of information with other countries.
<BR><BR>Arar's case has been regularly featured on the front pages of
Canadian<BR>newspapers and public outcry led to the government calling an
inquiry.<BR>Canada's federal government established the inquiry in 2004 to
determine the <BR>role Canadian officials played.<BR><BR>O'Connor also found
"troubling questions" about the role played by Canadian<BR>officials in the
cases of three other Canadians of Arab descent -- Ahmad El<BR>Maati,
Abdullah Almalki and Muayyed Nureddin. All claim they were tortured <BR>in
Syria after traveling there on personal business, and all suspect
that<BR>the RCMP, Canadian intelligence or both collaborated with their
captors.<BR><BR>O'Connor said he could not get to the bottom of those cases
because of the <BR>limited nature of his mandate. But he urged the
government to appoint an<BR>independent investigator -- something short of a
full-fledged public inquiry<BR>-- to look into those cases.<BR><BR>O'Connor
sifted through thousands of pages of documents and sat through <BR>testimony
from more than 40 witnesses. He delivered two versions of his<BR>report to
the government: one classified, the other public. But portions of<BR>even
the public edition of the long-awaited document were withheld due to
<BR>security concerns.<BR><BR>9/19/2006
06:23:35<BR><BR>-----------<BR><BR>Vision2020 Post: Ted
Moffett<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>
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