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Afghan Detainee Torture Risk Raised in 2005: Diplomat

Posted: 03/10/10 1:17PM
Filed Under: Top News, World, Afghanistan

Afghan police guard a prison in Kabul in 2004. Canadian diplomat Eillen Olexiuk says that in 2005 she raised the possibility that detainees transferred from Canadian to Afghan custody were at risk of torture.
AP

A Canadian diplomat with extensive experience in Afghanistan says she raised the possibility that detainees transferred from Canadian to Afghan custody were at risk of torture back in 2005, but her concerns were ignored.

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CSIS Played Critical Role in Afghan Prisoner Interrogations

Posted: 03/07/10 2:28PM
Filed Under: Canada, Top News, World, Afghanistan

An Afghan National Army soldier stands guard as a blindfolded suspected Taliban sits with his hands tied on the ground in Marjah, Afghanistan. (CP Photo/Jerome Starkey/Pool)

Officers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service have played a crucial and long-standing role as interrogators of a vast swath of captured Taliban fighters. The spies began working side-by-side with a unit of military police intelligence officers as the Afghan war spiralled out of control in 2006, according to heavily censored witness transcripts filed with the Military Police Complaints Commission.

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Canada Wanted Afghan Prisoners Tortured: Lawyer

Posted: 03/06/10 10:18AM
Filed Under: Canada, Top News, World, Afghanistan

University of Ottawa law professor Amir Attaran says Canadian officials intentionally handed over Afghan detainees to be tortured in order to gather intelligence.
CBC

ederal government documents on Afghan detainees suggest that Canadian officials intended some prisoners to be tortured in order to gather intelligence, according to a legal expert.

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Soldier Killed on Afghan Shooting Range

Posted: 02/13/10 10:59AM
Filed Under: Canada, Top News, Afghanistan

Canadian Cpl. Joshua Caleb Baker died in Afghanistan Friday in a shooting range accident during normal training, a senior officer said Saturday.

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Coalition Attacks Taliban Stronghold

Posted: 02/13/10 10:58AM
Filed Under: Top News, World, Afghanistan

Canadian Chinook helicopters touched down Friday in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan's restive south as coalition forces mounted the largest air assault of the nine-year war.

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Top Court Won't Force Khadr Repatriation

Posted: 01/29/10 10:06AM
Filed Under: Canada, Top News, Afghanistan, Omar Khadr, Politics, Terrorism

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. Military, Canadian defendant Omar Khadr sits during a hearing at the U.S. Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Monday,
In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed by the U.S. Military, Canadian defendant Omar Khadr sits during a hearing at the U.S. Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. (AP Photo)

The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned lower-court orders that the Canadian government must try to return Omar Khadr to Canada from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay — even though the court agrees his human rights have been violated and continue to be violated by Canadian officials.

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