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Omar Khadr
Omar Khadr Returns To Canada: Canadian Citizen In Guantanamo Repatriated
The Huffington Post 29/09/2012 -
A decade after 15-year-old Omar Khadr was pulled near death from the rubble of a bombed-out compound in Afghanistan, the Canadian citizen set foot on Canadian soil early Saturday following an American military flight from the notorious prison in Guantanamo Bay. Neil Macdonald: The Omar Khadr headache CBC News 01/10/2012 -  So, the Americans are minus one more Guantanamo Bay headache. And Canadians will now start arguing in earnest about whether Omar Khadr was a child soldier, as the UN has categorized him, or a terrorist murderer. One way or the other, politics is now colliding directly with the Canadian legal system, which is supposed to be immune to political considerations. |
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Surveillance
Search warrant reveals details of feverish RCMP terror investigation post 9/11
Ottawa Citizen 30/09/2012 -  The RCMP used an emergency provision of the Criminal Code to tap the phones of six terror suspects without court authorization in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, newly released documents reveal. Ottawa engineer Abdullah Almalki and Toronto truck driver Ahmad El-Maati were among those subjected to unauthorized wiretaps in October 2001. The practice has since been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada. It was from one such emergency intercept that the RCMP learned that Almalki planned to meet Ottawa's Maher Arar at Mango's Café on the afternoon of Oct. 12, 2001.
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New US Justice Department Documents Show Huge Increase in Warrantless Electronic Surveillance
 ACLU 27/09/2012 - The documents, handed over by the government only after months of litigation, are the attorney general's 2010 and 2011 reports on the use of "pen register" and "trap and trace" surveillance powers. The reports show a dramatic increase in the use of these surveillance tools, which are used to gather information about telephone, email, and other Internet communications. The revelations underscore the importance of regulating and overseeing the government's surveillance power.
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Border Security
Canada, U.S. launch project to strengthen border security
Toronto Sun 29/09/2012 -  In a press release, the CBSA said "a coordinated entry/exit system will help the U.S. and Canada identify persons who potentially overstay their lawful period of admission, track the departure of persons subject to removal orders, and verify that residency requirements are being met by applicants for continued eligibility in immigration programs.
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Rule of Law
Americans Take Anti-Drone Stance Directly to Pakistan
The Huffington Post 30/09/2012 - Among those marching will be the U.S. delegation organized by the peace group CODEPINK. The delegates, ranging in age from 23 to 85, are paying their own way and putting themselves at risk out of conviction that Americans must do more to stop the killing. Many of the delegates have already been actively involved in educating, protesting and mobilizing Americans against drone attacks. They have been vigiling - and getting arrested - outside air force bases, at the headquarters of drone manufacturers, at drone lobbyist events, in Congress and outside the White House.
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Why I'm Going to Pakistan: Under Scrutiny, the Drone Strike Policy Will Fall
US women may stage hunger strike in Pakistan in anti-drones protest
European Court Ruling Opens Door for Extradition to Torture Conditions in US Federal Prisons
 Truth Out 01/10/2012 - Masri and the four others, all held in British jails, will soon join hundreds of other Muslims tried inArticle III federal courtsin the United States over the last decade. Fair trials are unlikely. A similar degradation of rights that has characterized the prison at Guantanamo has also affected the judicial system within the United States. This includes intrusive surveillance, vague material support charges, the use of prolonged pretrial solitary confinement, classified evidence that the accused cannot review, and the use of political activities, normally protected under the First Amendment, to demonstrate mind-set and intent.
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War on Terror
Embracing Terrorism: Why is US Removing MEK From Terror List?
 Prism Magazine 25/09/2012 - While the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK/MKO) has claimed responsibility for countless terrorist attacks against civilian targets, including the murders of several American civilians, it has managed to extricate itself from its terrorist designation through a multi-million dollar lobbying and PR campaign which paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to individual U.S. politicians to advocate on its behalf. While an officially designated terrorist organization would normally not be able to so brazenly advocate itself, co-opt the American political system, and literally roam the halls of Congress, the MEK has found itself given a remarkably free hand due to the fact that the prime targets of its terrorism in recent years have been Iranians.
Inquiry Cites Flaws in US Counterterrorism Offices
The New York Times 02/10/2012 -  One of the nation's biggest domestic counterterrorism programs has failed to provide virtually any useful intelligence, according to Congressional investigators. The report found that the centers "forwarded intelligence of uneven quality - oftentimes shoddy, rarely timely, sometimes endangering citizens' civil liberties and Privacy Act protections, occasionally taken from already published public sources, and more often than not unrelated to terrorism."
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Racism
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Rule of law
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Secret prisons
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Terrorism
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War on terror
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Miscellaneous
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Petition
End US drone strikes in Pakistan
Just Foreign Policy's Robert Naiman is traveling to Pakistan as part of a peace delegation to protest U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. He will deliver this petition from Americans to the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan and also to Pakistani officials in opposition to U.S. drone strikes.
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Event
The Social Cost of National Security: Assessing the impact of global counter-terrorism initiatives on Canadian society
Organized by the Canadian Arab Institute and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
October 19, 2012
9am-5am
University of Toronto
Register here!
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