Posted on 10/31/2007 2:39:13 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
A government committee has concluded that Mohammed Mansour Jabarah was "arbitrarily detained" by CSIS when it helped the admitted al-Qaeda member surrender to FBI agents five years ago.
The Security Intelligence Review Committee also found his right to silence as protected under the Charter of Rights was violated as well as his right to counsel.
"Furthermore, his right to remain in Canada as protected by section 6 of the Charter [mobility rights] was violated," says a report from the committee.
The committee, chaired by former Manitoba premier Gary Filmon, made six recommendations, principal among them the need to obtain formal legal advice from the Department of Justice in operations where an individual is questioned in circumstances which may give rise to a detention and in all occasions when it is unclear whether the Service's activity falls within its statutory mandate.
The report's recommendations are not binding on the government, but the findings amount to an unflattering portrayal of the conduct of CSIS during one of its most important counterterrorism cases since 9/11.
There is also speculation the report could pressure the government to order an inquiry into the Jabarah case. If so, it would become just the latest probe into the conduct of Canadian officials during the war on terror.
In a highly unusual move, the committee, known by its acronym SIRC, brought in a retired Supreme Court justice to examine the Jabarah case and provide an opinion on whether CSIS may have violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
But Mr. Jabarah is unique among the others who have complained their rights were violated by Canadian counter-terrorism officials: The 25-year-old has admitted he is a trained al-Qaeda terrorist and that he oversaw the attempted bombing of the American embassy in Singapore in 2001.
He not only confessed in detail....
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Send him back to Canada, he won't last long!
If he’s an Al-qaeda fighter, how can his holding be considered arbitrary?
Sounds like they have their own Jimmy Carters in Canada.
He oversaw an operation to bomb U.S. and Israeli embassies in Southeast Asia.
The Canadians should have just told the U.S. he was in Oman. We could have handed him over to Israel and have a whole lot more information now.
SIRC ping!
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