Comments on: FBI takes another gratuitous, desperate swipe at Maher Arar’s reputation http://kerrypither.com/2009/01/fbi-takes-another-gratuitous-desperate-swipe-at-maher-arars-reputation/ author • advocate • commentator Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:47:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Beth guthrie http://kerrypither.com/2009/01/fbi-takes-another-gratuitous-desperate-swipe-at-maher-arars-reputation/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Beth guthrie Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:08:45 +0000 http://kerrypither.com/?p=219#comment-26 Letter: This story sounds like complete baloney to me. For starters, the testimony comes from torture: with torture, victims say whatever they think is wanted by their torturers. The timing is very suspicious – the day before Obama, who says he will close Guantanamo, is inaugurated, and during the lawsuit in US courts challenging Mr. Arar's rendition to Syria by the U.S. government. Surely Mr Arar and his family have suffered enough. He has been proven innocent by a Canadian inquiry. It is time to allow Maher and Monia to recover from their ordeal, get on with their lives, and bring up their family in peace. Letter: This story sounds like complete baloney to me. For starters, the testimony comes from torture: with torture, victims say whatever they think is wanted by their torturers. The timing is very suspicious – the day before Obama, who says he will close Guantanamo, is inaugurated, and during the lawsuit in US courts challenging Mr. Arar’s rendition to Syria by the U.S. government.

Surely Mr Arar and his family have suffered enough. He has been proven innocent by a Canadian inquiry. It is time to allow Maher and Monia to recover from their ordeal, get on with their lives, and bring up their family in peace.

]]> By: Telma Alencar http://kerrypither.com/2009/01/fbi-takes-another-gratuitous-desperate-swipe-at-maher-arars-reputation/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Telma Alencar Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:35:34 +0000 http://kerrypither.com/?p=219#comment-24 Khadr's CHIEF and first INTERROGATOR at Bagram was Sgt. Joshua Claus, who was court-martialled after an innocent Afghan prisoner was beaten to death. The man Khadr's chief interrogator's team tortured to death was DILAWAR, a 22 year-old innocent Afghanistan taxi driver. His abuse and death under torture is described in the Oscar winning DOCUMENTARY "Taxi to the Dark Side", by American filmmaker Alex Gibney. This is how they "got started" with Khadr... References Edmonton Sun: http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/03/18/5041486.html http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/03/guantanamo-detainee-khadr-accuses-us.php Khadr’s CHIEF and first INTERROGATOR at Bagram was Sgt. Joshua Claus, who was court-martialled after an innocent Afghan prisoner was beaten to death.

The man Khadr’s chief interrogator’s team tortured to death was DILAWAR, a 22 year-old innocent Afghanistan taxi driver.

His abuse and death under torture is described in the Oscar winning DOCUMENTARY “Taxi to the Dark Side”, by American filmmaker Alex Gibney.

This is how they “got started” with Khadr…

References

Edmonton Sun:

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2008/03/18/5041486.html

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/03/guantanamo-detainee-khadr-accuses-us.php

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