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U.S. rebuffs Canada to keep Arar on terror list WASHINGTON --- The U.S. on Monday rebuffed Canadian efforts to have Maher Arar's name stricken from American terrorist watch lists. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a letter to Public Security Minister Stockwell Day that the U.S. has reviewed the case and says that Arar's inclusion on the list is "supported." The decision follows a formal request from Ottawa last year for the Bush administration to review Arar's case after an inquiry by Justice Dennis O'Connor cleared the Syrian-born Canadian of ties to terrorism. The Bush administration's decision to keep Arar on a border-control watch list is based on intelligence provided by U.S. enforcement agencies that is independent of "that provided to us by Canada regarding Mr. Arar," Chertoff and Gonzales said. In the letter to Day, dated Jan. 16, Chertoff and Gonzales offered Canadian officials a detailed confidential briefing outlining the American information. "We want to ensure that this U.S.-derived information has been shared with Canada, and that both countries have an accurate understanding of the facts," the U.S. officials said. Day met with Chertoff in Washington on Jan. 18. He emerged from that meeting saying the U.S. had provided Canada with new information from its dossier on Arar, but that it had "not altered our opinion on at all" on his innocence. Day's office had not commented at presstime on whether the Bush administration had presented the fully content of its dossier on Arar to the minister last week. But the U.S. decision drew immediate skepticism and scorn from Arar's American lawyer and from Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who has threatened congressional hearings on the matter. "It is now crystal clear that the U.S. has shown everything it has on Mr. Arar to Canada, and that there is no reason for him to be on a watch list," said Maria LaHood, who represents Arar in a U.S. civil lawsuit. Arar was detained by U.S. authorities at New York's JFK airport in 2002 and deported to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured for nearly a year. +++ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
