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Lifting the cover on Canada’s spy files
Michelle Shephard writes for the Toronto Star:
But beyond answering questions that have lingered for years about Khadr’s case, John’s testimony was a remarkable example of how the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is being forced into public.
“There really has been a paradigm shift in what is being disclosed and what’s not,” noted Toronto lawyer Lorne Waldman, who represented Maher Arar during a multi-million dollar federal inquiry.
Another Khadr
Abdullah Khadr takes stand to fight extradition
The US is trying to have Canada extradite Abdullah Khadr, a member of the Khadr family. His father sent Abdullah to Afghanistan when he was a teenager.
Colin Freeze writes for the Globe and Mail:
Mr. Khadr and his defence team are trying to undermine the U.S. extradition bid that alleges he sold weaponry to al-Qaeda in 2003. While Mr. Khadr made admissions to this end to federal agents, he says they don’t count because everything flowed from a CIA conspiracy to have him interrogated overseas.
