Canada: U.S. Added To Torture Watch List

Foreign Ministry Manual Lists Guantanamo Bay Prison As Site Of Possible Abuse

(CBS)  A training manual for Canadian diplomats, produced by the Department of Foreign Affairs, includes the United States among countries which potentially use torture on prisoners.

The New York Times reported that a foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed the contents of the manual.

However, Canadian government employees struggled to assure that the attribution was not an official government position against the United States, a close ally.

Also on the torture watch list: Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Syria.

The ruling Conservative government has heretofore accepted assurances by the Bush administration that the United States does not engage in torture against prisoners, including detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

A Canadian man, Omar Khadr, is currently being held at the U.S. military prison there. He is accused of a 2002 killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old.

Lt.-Cmdr. Bill Kuebler, Khadr's U.S. military lawyer, told Canadian broadcaster CTV that he believes the manual contradicts Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's assurances that his client has received fair treatment.

"Omar has been there for five-and-a-half years, and at some point in the course of Omar Khadr's detention the Canadian government developed the suspicion he was being tortured and abused," Kuebler told the news program "Canada AM."

"And yet it has not acted to obtain his release from Guantanamo Bay and protect his rights, unlike every other Western country that has had its nationals detained in Guantanamo Bay."

A United States Embassy spokesperson told Reuters, “The United States does not permit, tolerate or condone torture under any circumstances.”

The manual - a PowerPoint presentation - is for training diplomats in protecting Canadian citizens who may be detained and subject to abuse in other countries.

CTV said the manual listed, among specific U.S. interrogation techniques, "forced nudity, isolation, and sleep deprivation."

The program was developed as part of a "torture awareness workshop," in response to the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, born in Syria, who was detained by the United States in 2002 under suspicion that he was tied to terrorists. Arar was transported to Syria. A Canadian inquiry later determined he was tortured there.

Arar was awarded C$11.5 million by the Canadian government as compensation.

[terrorislam6]

Canada To Remove U.S. From Torture List
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/19/world/main3731678.shtml

hahaha

canada folds like a cheap suit LOL

maybe it is time for canada to defend their own POS country with their own tax dollars and their two ship navy

hahaha

[terrorislam6]

Posted by grazinggoat at 11:05 AM : Jan 19, 2008

wrongggggg

ABDUCTING&CONVERTING COPTIC GIRLS
Abducting and converting Coptic girls to Islam is not only a result of the paranoid and racist incitation against the Copts, but it is an organized and pre-planned process by associations and organizations inside Egypt with domestic and Arab funding, as the main role in seducing and luring Coptic girls is carried through cunning, deceit, and enticement or through force if required. In a lecture delivered by the departed Archbishop Athanasious, he exposed some of the tactics of these organizations in abducting the Coptic girls by containment through friendship that leads at the end to sexual seduction or abduction or involuntary detention in many homes scattered allover Egypt and forcing them to convert to Islam.

http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/10/pakistan-16-muslims-reportedly-rape.html
http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/07/norwegian-government-covering-up.html
http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/Islam%20exposed/sweden-norway-rape.html
http://www.human-rights-and-christian-persecution.org/coptic.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/001302.php
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0304/154.html
Persecution of Christians: When Will the World Notice?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16274
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=584

[terrorislam6]

Posted by grazinggoat at 11:05 AM : Jan 19, 2008

wrongggggg

what part of equal rights do you not understand

you must be joking, syria LOL hahaha
egypt hahaha
lebanon is not a muslim majority yet

syria,,,
Fear of torture or ill-treatment
http://tharwacommunity.typepad.com/syrianelector_english/

[terrorislam6]

Posted by grazinggoat at 11:05 AM : Jan 19, 2008

wrongggggg

Being non-Muslim in Islamic nations means ''protection''--and problems.(World: Iraq )

The official term for this right is "dhimmitude." The world''s foremost expert on the subject, Bat Ye''Or, coined the word in 1983 to describe the legal and social condition of Jews and Christians (dhimmis) subjected to Islamic rule. Broadly interpreted, it appears benign: Non-Muslims enjoy a protected status among their Muslims neighbors: But dhimmitude becomes problematic because its supposed safeguards and protections can be withdrawn as selectively as they are applied by rulers or governments of Islamic states.

In Iraq , as in other predominately Muslim states, Christianity has existed side by side with Islam for centuries. For some observers (as well as those who experience it firsthand), the status of Christians is not one of cheery coexistence. Rather, it may be more like the old racial divides in the United States, where blacks lived near, but not integrated into, white society, and where they "kept their place"--separate and unequal.

In a July 24 interview with NCR, Baghdad Archbishop Jean Sleiman, leader of Iraq''s Latin Catholic church, said that in Iraq, "Christians and Muslims can I-live] side by side--but only side by side. Side by side, but not equally. No mixing, no integration."
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-121763784.html

[erasmus6]

"I met 2 chicks in a restruant in Vancover gave me a complete holliday dinner home cooked a great tour & a wonderfull 3 day stay." posted by j-whitman

j-whitman, are you a s-l-u-t?:)

[j-whitman]

AJMarine1,,,, Have a great day, catch you later --- I still don''t see you you can say they have a nuc weapons program when the NIE you just gave me said they don''t....

[j-whitman]

British Columbia,,,, Beautiful place from what I saw of it, I met 2 chicks in a restruant in Vancover gave me a complete holliday dinner home cooked a great tour & a wonderfull 3 day stay.

[ajmarine1]

British Columbia

Posted by erasmus6 at 02:49 PM : Jan 19, 2008


Nice cash crop that grows around there.

Are guns outlawed in Canada?

[ajmarine1]

Times up guys, until the next time.


Live Long and Prosper.

[j-whitman]

erasmus6,,,, That''s pretty obvious Bush can''t make decisions, even his advisors were wrong for 7 years.

This nation does not wage wars on presumemd threats -- That''s what Hitler did, & Bush did in Iraq

[erasmus6]

"Where are you located?" posted by AJMarine1


British Columbia

[ajmarine1]

AJMarine1,,,, That''''s right, & they''''ve stoped haven''''t they ???

Posted by j-whitman at 02:45 PM : Jan 19, 2008

Up to that point, they said they had no program at all,.........besides, you ask for intel, I gave it to you.

[erasmus6]

"I listen to the intelligence experts & the Generals in charge..." posted by j-whitman

Geez, I don''t know. Didn''t Bush say that there was WMDs in Iraq? Bush didn''t just come up with that on his own. He can''t make any decisions on his own. My point is that they don''t always know for sure ANYTHING. I myself, believe there were WMDs in Iraq, they just stalled the inspectors for so long that they had plenty of time to move them. Gee, I wonder where they could have moved them to?

[j-whitman]

AJMarine1,,,, That''s right, & they''ve stoped haven''t they ???

[ajmarine1]

it is usually from your country.

Posted by erasmus6 at 02:38 PM : Jan 19, 2008

Where are you located? I am in Ohio.

[ajmarine1]

Posted by j-whitman at 02:38 PM : Jan 19, 2008


U.S. Finds That Iran Halted Nuclear Arms Bid in 2003

By Dafna Linzer and Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, December 4, 2007; A01



A major U.S. intelligence review has concluded that Iran stopped work on a suspected nuclear weapons program more than four years ago, a stark reversal of previous intelligence assessments that Iran was actively moving toward a bomb.

The new findings, drawn from a consensus National Intelligence Estimate, reflected a surprising shift in the midst of the Bush administration''s continuing political and diplomatic campaign to depict Tehran''s nuclear development as a grave threat. The report was drafted after an extended internal debate over the reliability of communications intercepts of Iranian conversations this past summer that suggested the program had been suspended.

"Tehran''s decision to halt its nuclear weapons program suggests it is less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005," a declassified summary of the new National Intelligence Estimate stated. Two years ago, the intelligence community said in contrast it had "high confidence that Iran currently is determined to have nuclear weapons."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/03/AR2007120300846_pf.html

[erasmus6]

"The only way I could buy into banning guns is if you can show me that criminals(SP?) wouldn''''t have them either." posted by AJMarine1

Yes, the problem is of course that everyone has been allowed to own a gun ALWAYS, so that it would make it impossible to get them all.

Here criminals do get them, but it is a lot harder because they are banned. And when you find a criminal that does have one, it is usually from your country.

[j-whitman]

AJMarine1,,,, Show me the intell that says they have a nuclear arms program.... There is none, it''s just suspicion & conjecture.

Who knows abot their gay''s.. I''m sure they have them, but they don''t go around kissing Arabs on the lips as Bush does.

[ajmarine1]

J, erasmus6, I have about 15 minutes, then I have to go.

[j-whitman]

erasmus6,,,, I listen to the intelligence experts & the Generals in charge ---- If you don''t, then you are the crazy one