One of 19 detainees released - Canada - Democratic Underground

dArKeR

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Wed Aug-27-03 06:28 PM
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One of 19 detainees released - Canada

One of the 19 arrested men Canadian immigration officials wanted to keep locked up for national-security reasons will be released tomorrow, barring any sudden reversal.

In a blow to the government's assertions that the men — 18 Pakistanis and one Indian National — may be terrorist threats to Canada, a government adjudicator said the Immigration Department has failed to make its case.

Adjudicator Aina Martens ordered one man freed on $10,000 bond, which may be posted as early as tomorrow. The case against the detained man, 30-year-old Mohammad Akhtar, is weak, she said.

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030827.warrested190827/BNStory/National/

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Maple

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Wed Aug-27-03 06:31 PM
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1. These arrests

are utter nonsense...thought up by hysterics.

I hope we apologize to these people.

Insanity....brought about by media hype.

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dArKeR

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Thu Aug-28-03 05:02 AM
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2. Adjudicator disputes terrorist scenario

An immigration adjudicator has called into question Ottawa's assertions about 19 detained men by ordering one of them freed from jail yesterday, ruling that there "does not exist a reasonable suspicion on grounds of security."

The adjudicator's words contrast starkly with those of immigration officials who have suggested that the men — 18 Pakistanis and one Indian — are possibly an al-Qaeda sleeper cell. In a bid to keep them jailed, officials have further said the men lived in cohesive clusters and seemed to be interested in nuclear-power plants, the CN Tower, flight lessons and making explosives.

It is an ominous portrait that has been painted only in broad strokes as a police probe continues. Yet Aina Martens, a civil servant with quasi-judicial powers, presented a different picture when she presided over the detention hearing of a Pakistani suspect named Mohammad Akhtar.

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030828.uterr0828/BNStory/National/

Some sanity coming out of Canada must be really pissing off Satan's feces in the White House. Better look out Canada, you're leaders are about to get suicided as a Christmas present from D.C.

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Frederic Bastiat

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Thu Aug-28-03 07:47 AM
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3. Whatever happened to the Montreal man

That was arrested on a "security certificate" while his lawyer was not privy to the charges? Is he still rotting in prison?

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