Posted by admin on Aug 11th, 2009
By Mike Head, 11 August 2009, www.wsws.org
Despite scant police evidence, the Australian media has universally depicted five Muslim men arrested on August 4 in the course of extensive police raids as guilty of an extraordinary plot to attack an army base. For days on end, the public has been fed hysterical headlines, such as “Somali extremists on a ‘fatwa order’ from God,†assisting the security agencies and the Labor government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to whip up fresh fears of terrorism.
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Posted by admin on Aug 10th, 2009
The Globe and Mail, Susan Krashinsky, August 10, 2009
When the world descends on Vancouver in six months for the 2010 Winter Olympics, another kind of convergence will quietly be taking place. A cross-Canada security force will gather to keep those crowds under control, and disaster at bay. “It’s the largest security operation, ever, in Canadian history,” said Staff Sergeant Mike Côté of the RCMP unit in charge of security for the Games. The co-ordination of a $900-million security plan is a gigantic nationwide human-resources effort, pulling personnel from coast to coast to keep things safe.
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Posted by admin on Jul 16th, 2009
Jim Bronskill, Canadian Press, Thursday, Jul. 16, 2009 06:27AM EDT
Canada’s spy watchdog says CSIS ignored human-rights concerns in deciding to interview a teenaged Omar Khadr in an American military prison. In a report released Wednesday, the Security Intelligence Review Committee says there’s no evidence CSIS took Mr. Khadr’s young age into account either. The Toronto-born 22-year-old, is being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for allegedly throwing a grenade in Afghanistan when he was just 15, killing a U.S. soldier. There was widespread media reporting on allegations of mistreatment and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody in Guantanamo and Afghanistan when the Canadian Security Intelligence Service interviewed Mr. Khadr in February of 2003, the review committee report says.
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Posted by admin on Jun 26th, 2009
By Jennifer Ditchburn – Jun 26, 2009, Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Canada’s border police might have some boning up to do on Latin American politics. The federal government had to apologize to a visiting Salvadoran judge for some out-of-date information about his country. Eugenio Chicas was detained at Toronto’s Pearson airport for 24 hours last week after he says officials told him he was a member of a questionable organization. Chicas, of El Salvador’s main electoral institution, said in an interview that representatives from the Canada Border Services Agency repeatedly pointed out his affiliation with the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Movement or FMLN.
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Posted by admin on Jun 24th, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009, CBC News
Protesters opposed to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver said police are using intimidation tactics to keep them quiet, and they are threatening to take the police to court to put a stop to it. A group called the Olympic Resistance Network sent a lawyer’s letter to the RCMP unit in charge of Olympic security demanding it end what the group calls its abusive and unlawful conduct against its members.
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