Posted by admin on Oct 20th, 2009
Ottawa — The Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009
The Federal Court is ordering Canada’s spy agency to disclose a second human source in the Mohamed Harket case, an exceptional decision taken after finding the Canadian Security Intelligence Service “filtered†evidence and failed to tell the court that a first key source had failed a polygraph test. The source will only be revealed to the court and special advocates, it will not be made public. It’s the latest in a series of body blows to the agency and its efforts to sanction non-citizens accused of associations with extremist groups.
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Posted by admin on Oct 14th, 2009
October, 14, 2009, THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL – A security certificate against a Montreal man ((formerly)) accused of having terrorist ties has officially been declared null and void. Adil Charkaoui says he is elated about the judgment which he received today. He says the certificate has been quashed and that the federal government does not have the right to appeal. Charkaoui tells The Canadian Press he has been waiting for six years to officially be a free man again.
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Posted by admin on Sep 30th, 2009
Colin Freeze, Globe and Mail Published, Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2009
Ottawa has spent $60-million over the past two years in its failed attempts to deport a handful of immigrants accused of having ties with al-Qaeda, The Globe and Mail has learned. According to sources, the money has been used to fund legal cases involving five men detained under security certificates – a long-standing program that Ottawa has used in the hopes of ridding the country of suspected terrorists.
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Posted by admin on Sep 29th, 2009
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Janice Tibbetts, Canwest News Service: Tuesday, September 29, 2009
OTTAWA — Adil Charkaoui, fresh from securing his freedom from federal surveillance, came to Parliament Hill on Tuesday shopping for an apology from the government for his “years of suffering” after being branded a terror suspect. He also hinted that he could seek financial compensation. The Montreal schoolteacher’s appeal for Ottawa to drop its fight against him and to make amends came on the eve of a closed-door court hearing in which a judge is expected to quash a federal “security certificate,” issued in 2003 on accusations that Charkaoui had ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network. The rarely used certificates permit indefinite “administrative detention” of non-Canadians, without being charged or knowing the full case against them, while judges decide in closed-door hearings whether the suspects should be deported.
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Posted by admin on Sep 26th, 2009
By SUE MONTGOMERY, The Gazette, September 26, 2009
Adil Charkaoui’s first night of freedom was peaceful, until his 6-year-old son woke up crying. After four years of sleeping with the base of his father’s global tracking system in his room, Abdallah suddenly felt lost without the glowing light that emanated from the black machine the size of a toaster. Charkaoui, too, felt a bit “naked” on his first day after Federal Court Judge Danielle Tremblay-Lamer quashed the security certificate under which the schoolteacher has been living for six years – and its accompanying bail conditions, including an electronic ankle bracelet that tracked his every move.
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