From: "George Sherwood" 

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:00:40 +0100, Phil Payne wrote:

>
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/world/americas/19canada.html?ei=5065&en=4be
612fbe74b3720&ex=1159243200&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
>
> "Mr. Arar arrived in Syria on Oct. 9, 2002, and was imprisoned there until
> Oct. 5, 2003. It took Canadian officials, however, until Oct. 21 to locate
> him in Syria. The commission concludes that Syrian officials at first denied
> knowing Mr. Arar's whereabouts to hide the fact that he was being tortured.
> It says that, among other things, he was beaten with a shredded electrical
> cable until he was disoriented."
>
> Welcome to Bush's new America - cruel and unusual punishment before even
> being tried, much less found guilty.
>
> It's a two-stage process.  First hijack a party, then hijack the country.
> Shrub's succeeded at both - and is now in power very largely because
> Americans decide at birth what party they're going to vote for for life.
>

Guess you missed the part where the Canadians told the US that he was a
connected terrorist?  Much blame to go around.

George

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