by CP Source: Canoe.ca CNEWS URL: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2008/06/30/pf-6030661.html Date: June 30, 2008 Thanks to Yahya at Montreal Muslim News for passing on this one. NEW YORK - A United States appeals court decision upholding the dismissal of a lawsuit from Canadian Maher Arar essentially enables the U.S. government to send foreigners to be tortured, a lawyer with a human rights group representing Arar said Monday. "It means that the U.S. can do to anyone what they did to Maher," said Maria LaHood, a senior attorney with the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights. "They can do it to anyone, to any foreign citizen, and use the immigration process as a guise, basically, to send someone to be tortured." Arar, a Canadian citizen of Syrian birth, was stopped by U.S. officials at JFK Airport in New York City as he returned to Canada from a holiday abroad in 2002. ...
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