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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Indeed. I have seen the results of "we don't profile" at
airports all across the US. Ugly at a minimum, unAmerican and unPatriotic to
boot....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Debi R-S</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=sunilramalingam@hotmail.com
href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">Sunil Ramalingam</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> Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:44
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Unbelievable!
Canadian Arar Comission OnUS RenderingOf Arar To Syrian Torture</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Ted,<BR><BR>I'd be shocked by this poor man's horror, except
for the all-too-similar experience of the Muslim German man, Khaled el-Masri,
dragged off a bus on holiday and shipped to Afghanistan where he was beaten
and tortured. <BR><BR>I've read that renditions also occurred during the
Clinton Administration. If that's true, it was despicable then and it's
despicable now. But it's not something that's happening by
accident. I don't think it's comparable to border patrol agents
committing crimes. I think it's a planned
program.<BR><BR>Sunil<BR><BR>> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:12:22
-0700<BR>> From: ophite@gmail.com<BR>> To: lfalen@turbonet.com<BR>>
CC: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Unbelievable!
Canadian Arar Comission On US RenderingOf Arar To Syrian Torture<BR>>
<BR>> The two border patrol agents fired fifteen shots at an
unarmed,<BR>> fleeing criminal suspect accused of a nonviolent crime. They
then<BR>> collected the spent bullet casings and filed a false police
report.<BR>> <BR>> That's a crime.<BR>> <BR>> That may not be a
crime worth 20 years in federal prison, but it's a crime.<BR>> <BR>> --
ACS<BR>> <BR>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:49 AM, lfalen
<lfalen@turbonet.com> wrote:<BR>> > I tis hard to understand the
actions of some government officials. It would appear that he should have been
turned over to the Canadians not Syria. whether Bush had anything to do with
it is is open to question. However there were two boarder guards who were
arrested and put in prison for shooting a drug dealer who was trying to
escape. Bush has refused to review the case or grant them a pardon. They were
doing their job. Nether of these events should have happened.<BR>> >
This is the best country on earth but bad things still happen at the federal
and local level. I will tell a story of something that happen a few years ago
in Nevada. A neighbor of my brothers got a phone call that his son was in an
accident and was severely injured on the highway a short distance away. He got
in his car an headed down the road. At the scene the road was blocked and he
was told that he could not go down to the scene even after telling that it was
his son. He got in his car and drove around the road block. The State
Patrolman who was at the road block ordered him out of the car at gun point.
He was arrested and taken to the jail in Reno. He was allowed to call his wife
to tell her that their son was dead and he was in jail. He was latter released
and told that the Patrolman had over reacted. When they tried to check on the
records latter. there wern"t any. According to the records, it never
happened.<BR>> > Roger<BR>> > -----Original message-----<BR>>
> From: "Ted Moffett" starbliss@gmail.com<BR>> > Date: Wed, 23 Jul
2008 14:02:59 -0700<BR>> > To: "vision 2020"
vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> > Subject: [Vision2020] Unbelievable!
Canadian Arar Comission On US RenderingOf Arar To Syrian Torture<BR>>
><BR>> >> I posted information on this case recently, but upon
further reading, I<BR>> >> still cannot believe this actually
happened to an innocent person traveling<BR>> >> through the US...
I'll wake up to discover it is a fiction... It should be<BR>> >>
clear that this case violates basic principles of human rights, habeas<BR>>
>> corpus among them, the undermining of which places everyone at risk
of<BR>> >> abuses by government. This is conduct that would be
expected from a brutal<BR>> >> human rights abusing dictatorship, not
from the world's so called leading<BR>> >> democracy. Even if Arar
was suspected of connections to unlawful behavior<BR>> >> based on
good evidence, which later turned out to be false, given it has<BR>>
>> been determined he is innocent, Arar's rendering by the US to Syria
to face<BR>> >> the torture well known to occur there in detention
centers, for 10 months,<BR>> >> is... Words fail... Read pages 15-25
from the Toope Report (PDF document at<BR>> >> the second URL below),
which, if accurate, reveal how Arar's life was<BR>> >> destroyed, a
man who from this account appears to be morally above the norm:<BR>>
>><BR>> >>
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/pco-bcp/commissions/maher_arar/07-09-13/www.ararcommission.ca/eng/index.htm<BR>>
>><BR>> >>
http://www.ararcommission.ca/eng/ToopeReport_final.pdf<BR>> >>
-------<BR>> >>
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0920-33.htm<BR>> >><BR>>
>> >From URL immediately above:<BR>> >><BR>> >> The
United States transported Arar to the very same Syria which Bush has<BR>>
>> been condemning since his first days in office, and as he did again
on<BR>> >> Tuesday, calling Syria "a crossroad for terrorism." So,
will anyone in that<BR>> >> somnambulant White House press corps dare
ask the president why he would<BR>> >> turn over a prisoner to such a
government? And an innocent one at that?<BR>> >><BR>> >>
Yes, innocent. On Monday, the Canadian justice who headed a 30-month<BR>>
>> investigation of this case concluded: "I am able to say categorically
that<BR>> >> there is no evidence that Mr. Arar has committed any
offense." The judge<BR>> >> employed characteristic Canadian
restraint in concluding in his damning<BR>> >> three-volume, 822-page
report that "The American authorities who handled Mr.<BR>> >> Arar's
case treated Mr. Arar in a most regrettable fashion. They removed him<BR>>
>> to Syria against his wishes and in the face of his statements that he
would<BR>> >> be tortured if sent there.<BR>> >>
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