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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals just dismissed a landmark lawsuit filed by a Canadian victim of “extraordinary rendition” against former U.S. officials, ruling that torture victims have no right to compensation from the U.S. government, even if U.S. officials were complicit in their treatment.
Maher Arar is a Canadian citizen who was seized in 2002 [...]

Maybe it’s a cultural thing, but Canadians seem so much more willing to apologize for their mistakes than Americans do.
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, a committee in Parliament is planning to recommend that the Canadian government compensate and apologize to three Arab-Canadian men who were imprisoned and tortured in Syria, due partly to information [...]

Brian Beutler flags an interview Fareed Zakaria conducted with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about contributing additional troops to Afghanistan or continuing the Canadian deployment after 2011, when it’s slated to end. Harper says that if President Obama asks him to re-up or step up in Afghanistan, he’ll reply:
“What is your plan to leave Afghanistan [...]

On the heels of President Obama’s first meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, InsideDefense’s Sebastian Sprenger finds that the U.S. military command responsible for North America views Harper’s country as an entry point for terrorists. The piece is behind a lamentable now outside a subscriber firewall, but:
Military officials believe Canadian immigration policies are creating [...]

Lawyers for Maher Arar, a 34-year-old Syrian-born Canadian who was arrested at JFK airport, taken to Syria, interrogated and tortured, argue he has a right to sue for damages. If the Second Circuit sides with Arar, the government could face many more lawsuits.

The case of Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen arrested in New York and sent to Syria to be interrogated under torture, will be re-heard today by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York, sitting en banc.
As I reported earlier, the 34-year-old computer consultant of Syrian descent was apprehended by U.S. authorities in 2002 [...]