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Toronto StarOTTAWA–Three Canadian Muslims claimed vindication, if not victory, after a long-awaited inquiry report partly blamed Canadian officials for their detention and torture in the Middle East.
"It clears our names," said Abdullah Almalki, an engineer detained by Syria in 2002 for nearly two years. "It clearly vindicates us."
(Former Supreme Court judge Frank) Iacobucci blamed RCMP and CSIS agents who tagged the men with such "inflammatory" labels as Islamic extremist or "imminent threat" and shared that information with foreign agencies, sometimes without the proper cautions about its unreliability or prohibitions against distribution to other countries.
The report also slams foreign affairs officials for failing to provide quick and effective consular services to the detainees, and in one case failing to flag an allegation of torture when it surfaced to Canada's foreign affairs minister.
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Three more Maher Arar cases. this is going to get expensive and embarrassing for the Canadian Government.