Psychoblues
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Sickening, just sickening.
The incoming chair of the powerful US senate judiciary committee has vowed to get to the bottom of an alleged rendition of a Canadian man wrongly accused of terrorist ties, a Canadian newspaper said.
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Senator Leahy said he would also question Gonzales about the US government's alleged widespread use of "extraordinary rendition" -- the clandestine seizing and transfer of terror suspects to allied nations that condone torture.
"It's not just this individual case," he said. "But what does this say when someone's plane stops here, they have citizenship in a neighboring country and we ship them back to Syria."
"This is beneath our country. And, it does absolutely nothing to make us more secure and it is a gross human rights violation."
More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061220/pl_afp/canadaussyriaattacks
Psychoblues
The incoming chair of the powerful US senate judiciary committee has vowed to get to the bottom of an alleged rendition of a Canadian man wrongly accused of terrorist ties, a Canadian newspaper said.
(snip)
Senator Leahy said he would also question Gonzales about the US government's alleged widespread use of "extraordinary rendition" -- the clandestine seizing and transfer of terror suspects to allied nations that condone torture.
"It's not just this individual case," he said. "But what does this say when someone's plane stops here, they have citizenship in a neighboring country and we ship them back to Syria."
"This is beneath our country. And, it does absolutely nothing to make us more secure and it is a gross human rights violation."
More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061220/pl_afp/canadaussyriaattacks
Psychoblues
