Re: The War on Terror is a war on rights

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

JKS, you forgot to mention those nukular weppins. 

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




> -----Original Message-----
> From: andie nachgeborenen [mailto:andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:02 AM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The War on Terror is a war on rights
> 
> 
> What's yer problem, Hanly, guy's a towlhead, right?
> All towlheads are terrorists and should be tortured to
> avenge Syria's attack on the World Trade Center, and
> also for hiding Saddam Hussein's WMD so we can't find
> them. If you have done anything, you should't mind
> being disappeared and tortured for a greater good. We
> have to wipe out evcery vestife of extremism and
> terroris, root it out, no matter what the cost, to
> preserve our freedom,a nd anyway, it isn't like the
> huy was white. Besides, he's a Canucka s well asa
> Towlhead, and all you Canucks are commies, you have
> national health and you didn't help us in Iraq. You
> called the president a moron, so of course we're gonna
> deport you to be tortyured by our friend in Syria, who
> will help us find out who did the Twin Towers thing,
> because we can't do torture ourselves, that would be
> wrong, even if it is only a commie Canuck Muslim
> fundamentalist terrorist. Some intesnse interrogation,
> tahtw ould be OK, sleep deprivation, thats ort of
> thing. Blowtorches to the balls, let the towlheads do
> it to each other, tell su what they find out.
> 
> jks
> 
> --- k hanly <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is from CBC news. Outside of Canada there seems
> > little coverage of this
> > particularly nasty case of  just snatching someone
> > who was changing planes
> > and then no doubt farming him out to Syria to see if
> > they could extract
> > useful info from him by torture. It is ironic that
> > the US authorities would
> > send him to Syria a country the US accuses of
> > supporting terrorism rather
> > than Canada where we are supposedly just a bit
> > sloppy in letting them slip
> > through to the US!
> >
> > Cheers, Ken Hanly
> >
> > Canadian freed from Syrian jail happy to be home
> > Last Updated Mon, 06 Oct 2003 21:37:24
> > MONTREAL - Maher Arar's return to Canada is the
> > beginning of his hunt for
> > justice, his wife says.
> >
> > Maher, 33, arrived at Montreal's Dorval Airport
> > Monday afternoon.
> >
> >
> > The Canadian citizen was jailed in Syria, where he
> > was born, for 374 days
> > after U.S immigration officials arrested him in New
> > York and deported him
> > last fall.
> >
> > At a brief new conference at Dorval, Arar talked
> > about his children and "my
> > fellow Canadians who have contributed and helped me
> > get back home."
> >
> > He said he was excited to see his family. "My kids
> > grew up in the last
> > year."
> >
> >
> > FROM OCT. 21, 2002: Missing Ottawa engineer turns up
> > in Syria
> >
> > But his wife, Monia Mazigh, said her husband's
> > "terrible tragedy" isn't over
> > yet. "It's just the beginning of justice for my
> > husband."
> >
> >
> > Maher Arar speaks to the media
> >
> > Arar was first detained by U.S. authorities in
> > September 2002 while he was
> > changing planes in New York. He was travelling from
> > Tunisia to Canada.
> >
> > U.S. authorities said his name was on a terrorist
> > list and they suspected
> > him of being a member of al-Qaeda. After 10 days,
> > they deported him, not to
> > Canada but to to his native Syria.
> >
> > While he has both Syrian and Canadian citizenship,
> > he hasn't lived in Syria
> > for more than 15 years.
> >
> > Arar was jailed upon his return to Syria, but not
> > formally charged.
> >
> > Both Amnesty International and Mazigh had lobbied
> > hard to keep Canadian
> > officials focused on the case.
> >
> >
> > FROM SEPT. 25, 2003: RCMP leaves MPs in dark about
> > Arar case
> >
> > His case has been shrouded in confusion.
> >
> > There have been suggestions he was tortured in
> > Syria, and questions about
> > the RCMP's role, if any, in passing information to
> > U.S. authorities.
> >
> > Arar, a software engineer from Ottawa, appears to be
> > in good health.
> >
> >
> >
> > Written by CBC News Online
> 
> 
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