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Cpl_Kendall

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Date: Oct 6, 2006

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CBC.CA Canada wants assurances that U.S. officials will deal honestly with their Canadian counterparts and incidents like the deportation of Canadian Maher Arar to Syria will not happen again, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday. He made the comment while talking to reporters after the government announced Canada will officially protest the U.S. treatment of Arar and Canadian officials. Arar was deported to Syria from the United States, and then U.S. officials were not candid about their actions. "What I would like to see is obviously the United States government come clean with its version of events, to acknowledge … the deficiencies and inappropriate conduct that occurred in this case, particularly vis-a-vis its relationship with the Canadian government," Harper said. Canada wants to hear that "these kinds of incidents will not be repeated in the future." Harper talked to U.S. President George W. Bush on the phone Friday, and expressed Canadian concerns about Arar and the behaviour of U.S. officials. Justice Dennis O'Connor's recent report on Arar's case concluded that the American authorities treated him badly. They sent Arar to Syria, where he was tortured, after he stopped off in the U.S. on his way back to Canada in 2002. Moreover, O'Connor said that the U.S. officials were candid neither with the RCMP officers involved in the joint investigation of Arar, nor with Canadian consular officials who were seeking to help him. Harper said the U.S. actions "violated what we understood to be the protocols for such communications between our two governments." Bush "had some awareness of the issue," seemed to be sympathetic and said the U.S. government would respond, Harper said. O'Connor recommended the government formally complain about how the U.S. dealt with Arar, and how U.S. officials dealt with their Canadian counterparts. But he conceded that the objection would be more symbolic than anything else. U.S. officials acted on incorrect information provided by the RCMP. Foreign Minister Peter MacKay sent the protest letter to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday. Canada also sent the U.S. a copy of O'Connor's report. We all know they won't. __________________ They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

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Date: Oct 7, 2006

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Dictator Bush with puppet master Cheney don't care at all about rights. We'll hear of more incidents like this. __________________ What is it with soldiers wives that makes them mindless jingoistic retards? Guess what I was a soldier and I don't blindly follow government foreign policy. Sit down, shut up and engage your brain. (Cpl. Kendall)

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