European human rights activists have expressed alarm about a graphic video released this week showing a young Canadian inmate at Guantanamo Bay weepin

European human rights activists have expressed alarm about a graphic video released this week showing a young Canadian inmate at Guantanamo Bay weeping and calling out for help.

A grainy seven-and-a-half hour video released by the lawyers of the youngest detainee held at the US military prison in Cuba shows Omar Khadr weeping and begging for help.

"You don't care about me," Khadr tells his interrogators. "Nobody cares about me."

Indeed, when Khadr complains that the interrogators have not helped his case and asks to be returned home to Canada, he is told, "We can't do anything for you."

The video, shot over the course of four days in February 2003 when Khadr was 16 and grilled by officials from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service spy agency is the first real insight into the conditions at Guantanamo Bay which have been slammed by human rights activists.

"For me that video is just the tip of the iceberg," said Wolfgang Kaleck, General Secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. " I'm not an emotional person, but it's easy when you watch that footage to fill in the blanks about what you're not seeing."

Omar Kadar is a Canadian, AND MUST BE SUPPORTED BY THE GOVERNMENT

July 15, 2008

Libeal MP
514 Parliament Street (Main Office
Toronto, Ontario, M4X 1P4

Dear Mr. Rae

I am writing to you to support your stand on Omar Khadr’s return to Canada .Omar Kadar is a Canadian, AND MUST BE SUPPORTED BY THE GOVERNMENT . He should face the court in Canada for his alleged killing a Us combat in Afghanistan. KHADAR’ s crime and affiliation with Al_Quaeda is not worse than the crimes committed by Paul Bernardo , the cold blood rapist and psycho, who raped tens of women and murdered three of them , the man who never be touched to get confess on his crimes against women .
While all the detainees must be treated human and fair but the government should not politicize the nature of a crime. If a human being is physically harmed then the authorities should deal it equally.

Good terrorist and bad terrorists
The problem is not Omar Khadar’s involvement in war against US inside Afghanistan and alleged killing a US combat while he was 15 years old but the problem is existence of double standard on dealing with terrorists by the Canadian government.
It looks to me there are good terrorists and bad terrorists defined by Canadian government and intelligent service. While they are treating Omar Khadr inhuman and closing eyes on the torture and mistreatment of him at US infamous " Guantanamo Bay " at the same time they are closing eyes on a Stalinist, violent and undemocratic activities Mojahedin khalgh, MKO, threatening other Canadian citizens who dare to criticize them. Also, the illegal transfer of hundred of youth under age from Iraq to Canada and to US include one Canadian citizen , Mohammad Mohammady ,15 years old , a resident of Richmond Hill and his sister, Somaye Mohammay while she was 16 years old. .
The numbers of occasions on which Liberal or Conservative members of Parliament have met with this organization are numerous, and include, but are not restricted to the followings. The group enjoying free ride and activities in parliament and across Canada.

1. December 18, 2005:
Two Conservatives member of Parliaments (MPs) and one independent flew to Toronto to attend a conference organized and attended exclusively by members of the Mojahedin at the Colony Hotel in Toronto. The Four MPs consisting of Stockwell Day( the current public safety minister) , Paul Forseth, Yasmin Ratansi , and David Killgour all spoke and endorsed the idea of regime change in Iran by military force.
2. The latest support was by Ms. Raymond Folco, Liberal MP from Laval- Les Îles who flew to Paris to support the totalitarian group who systematically violating universal UN Human rights declaration such as banning marriage among the group in Iraq, training child as a soldiers , lack of free lection for two decades.
The organizations are so called Mojahedin Khalq (MKP) and/or the National Council of Resistance of Iran (N.C.R.I). Nonetheless, they habitually assume given names to elude the authorities of countries in which they are active and are in the Canadian and Us terrorist list since 2003.
The government has to respect its rules and laws and then expect the citizens to follow the lawmakers and intelligent service who are assigned to protect people.
All Canadian must be treated equal and be supported while they are abroad which has been neglected in so many cases such as case of Zahra Kazemi in notorious Evin Prison in Iran , to the case of Omar khaddar in US military detention centre .

While MKO are enjoying the freedom in Canada they have to
1. Respect human rights and freedom of speech
2. Denounced violence
3. Held an free election supervised by Canadian observe

As long as MKO has not met the criteria, any kind of support will not help democracy and human rights in Iran .

Please be advised that MKO and the leaders are liable along aside of theocrats for the circle of violation that cost lives of thousands of Iranian.

MKO and Masoud rajavi have been serving Sadam Hossiens brutal regime, which boosted Khomeini to stay in power when ha attacked Iran in 1981 . The invasion of Iran gave the green light to the regime to quell the Iranian intellectual and activists include MKO who were demanding the rightful basic rights of Iranian

While we respect your rights to support an undemocratic group but we reserve our right as Canadian to take the case to the Canadian human rights commission since supporting MKO as a fascist organization is against Canadian values and principals. Iranian need Canadian help to restore democracy and Human rights in Iran , and it must be done within the Iranian border by the Iranian people not by the puppets of US neo Cons . We need peace.
Be a voice for peace not war.




Saeed Soltanpour

Journalist
Iranian community paper

He is Right , PM doesn't care >Ottawa bracing for interrogation video

Ottawa bracing for interrogation video
TheStar.com - Canada - Ottawa bracing for interrogation video

Release today expected to hike pressure on PM to get Khadr sent home

July 15, 2008
Michelle shephard
National Security Reporter

For the first time since Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr was captured six years ago, the public will be able to see him this morning as he sobs and begs to be brought home to Canada.

Khadr's lawyers hope today's much-anticipated release of a 2003 interrogation recording will pressure Prime Minister Stephen Harper to demand that the U.S. halt their war crimes prosecution of the Toronto captive.

Ottawa officials have been bracing for the video's public release since the Supreme Court of Canada ordered its disclosure in May.

"I hope Canadians will be outraged to see the callous and disgraceful treatment of a Canadian youth," said Khadr's lawyer, Dennis Edney.

Documents released by Khadr's lawyers last week already raised questions as to why Canadian officials were publicly stating that they had "sought and received assurances" from the U.S. that Khadr was treated humanely, when privately they knew he was subjected to a sleep deprivation regime the U.S. military dubbed the "frequent flyer program."

"It is shocking to learn that as far back as five years ago Canadian officials knew of the torture and ill-treatment Omar Khadr had experienced but did not intervene on his behalf," Amnesty International Canada wrote to Harper.

While Khadr's case has received much attention in the past year, Harper has steadfastly maintained he will not interfere in the Guantanamo trial – a claim he reiterated last week.

Although only 15 at the time of his capture, Khadr was seen both by U.S. and Canadian intelligence services as a prize captive because he was the son of Ahmed Said Khadr, who had ties to Al Qaeda's elite. Officials with Canada's spy service and foreign affairs department visited Khadr over three weeks in 2003 and 2004 before a federal court injunction halted any further visits to glean intelligence.

The Pentagon has accused Khadr of throwing a grenade that fatally wounded U.S. Sgt. Christopher Speer and are pushing forward with a scheduled Oct. 8 trial date.

But Khadr's lawyers are hoping public outcry will follow the release of the interrogation video and embarrass the government into action.

A summary of the video's contents describes Khadr as sometimes inconsolable and saying he was scared. He asked the Canadian spy at one point: "Promise you'll protect me from Americans."

He also took off his shirt to display the wounds he received when he was shot and captured. "I lost my eyes," he said, referring an injury that blinded him in one eye.

Before the interrogation ended that day the summary notes: "Khadr put his head back in his hands and cried heavily. The interrogators left him at this point."

'Israel spy' sentenced in Iran

'Israel spy' sentenced in Iran

The defendant confessed to spying and has asked for clemency
An Iranian man has been sentenced to death for spying for Israel, according to reports from Tehran.

Ali Ashtari was found guilty of sending "sensitive information on military, defence and research centres" to Iran's arch foe in the region, reports say.

Israeli officials have been quoted as saying that Israel was not familiar with the case.

Iranian media say he was put on trial on Saturday. He confessed to charges against him and asked for clemency.

Mr Ashtari has 20 days to appeal against the verdict handed down by a revolutionary court.

Whena Liberal MP supports a violence and bloody thirsty group

Raymonde Folco , a liberal MP from Laval—Les Îles Quebec supporting MKO a notorious, Undemocratic , anti Women group.
this week to participate on a circus by the group who are disliked by Iranian inside and abroad and have no legitimacy what so ever for democracy and Human Rights movement in Iran since they were puppet of Sadam Hossein


I am wondering how come Mr.s Folco supporting MKO while no body allows to get marry , to have children .MKO are as much democratic as Mullahs in Iran

I advise MR. Dion and Liberal party to buy a ticket for him to France, Paris , since Mrs. Folco support is a slap on the face of Canadian solder who died for the freedom during first and second world war.

Mrs. Folco shame on you .

Why I vote republican

an interesting video clip why voting republican is a treat to US citizens and enovironement, too
http://imvotingrepublican.com/

Deadly Fallout From Obama's Groveling Before Israel Lobby

Deadly Fallout From Obama's Groveling Before Israel Lobby
By JAMES G. ABOUREZK

Like a Moslem undertaking the Hajj, the once in a lifetime trip to Mecca, or a Catholic chancing to see the Pope speak from his Vatican window, presidential candidates seemingly long to trudge to the annual AIPAC conference to pay fealty to Israel and its Lobby.

This year we were fortunate enough to witness John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton taking turns losing their dignity before the AIPAC crowd. At one point in his parody on The Daily Show , Jon Stewart spoke of John McCain taking with him Senator Joe Lieberman on a visit to Israel, advising McCain that when you visit Israel “you don’t need to bring your own Jew.”

it is good news to hear cancellation of PM to the apartied regime

Canadian PM cancels visit to Israel due to Olmert probe
By Rhonda Spivak

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has cancelled a June 16-20 trip to Israel due to the corruption scandal surrounding Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Harper's staff never confirms a trip until shortly before the PM leaves, so the change is not characterized as a cancellation, but the trip had been talked about publicly.

Norman Spector, former Canadian ambassador to Israel, said: "The domestic situation in Israel, quite frankly, is scandalous... Prime Minister Harper has no business being there when his counterpart is two steps away from the gallows."

Spector was referring to the corruption investigation surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in which he is suspected of having illegally received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Jewish American businessman Morris Talansky. Talansky told a preliminary hearing at Jerusalem Magistrates Court that he gave Olmert $150,000 over a period of 15 years.

The Canadian government, however, is considered a strong supporter of Israel, and it recently announced that it will not take part in the United Nations conference on racism next year because the event is likely to descend into "regrettable anti-Semitism."

Officials said they believed Canada was the first nation to announce it will not attend the meeting scheduled for April 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.

A similar meeting at the same venue in 2001 was marred when Israel and the United States walked out in protest over draft conference texts branding Israel as a racist and apartheid state - language that was later dropped.

"(We) had hoped that the preparatory process for the 2009 ... conference would remedy the mistakes of the past. Despite our efforts, we have concluded that it will not. Canada will therefore not participate," Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier said in a statement.

GUANTANAMO BAY – A United Nations committee has reprimanded the U.S. for trying Omar Khadr for war crimes and detaining hundreds of children in Iraq a

GUANTANAMO BAY – A United Nations committee has reprimanded the U.S. for trying Omar Khadr for war crimes and detaining hundreds of children in Iraq and Afghanistan, when international law requires that they be rehabilitated.

Khadr, who was 15 when he was shot and captured in Afghanistan in 2002, and Afghan detainee Mohammed Jawad are on trial here for allegedly attacking U.S. troops.

Their trials are believed to be the first war crime prosecution of juveniles, which civil rights groups warn will set a dangerous precedent.

“The Committee is seriously concerned that children who were recruited or used in armed conflict, rather than being considered primarily as victims, are classified as ‘unlawful enemy combatants,’ and have been charged with war crimes and subjected to prosecution by military tribunals,” the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child stated in a report released

Wayne Marston, MP , stand on Khadar

Dear Saeed Soltanpour,


Thank you for your email regarding the subcommittee’s work on the case of Omar Khadr.

As you may know, on March 11, 2008 I presented a motion before the Subcommittee on Human Rights drawing attention to the detention and prosecution of Omar Khadr with hopes that Canadian government would petition the American government for his repatriation.



The Committee has heard from several witnesses, including Mr. Khadr’s lawyer, U.S. Navy Lt. Commander William Kuebler, and Sen. Roméo A. Dallaire. Lt. Commander Kuebler appealed for Canada to save Mr. Khadr’s from a potential life sentence. He also talked extensively about the rules set forth by the UN Optional Protocol on the Convention of the Rights of the Child. This Protocol clearly defines child combatants as victims, under the age of 18 years, who have been sent to fight. Canada was the first country to ratify the Protocol and has an obligation to abide by it. Unfortunately, the Conservative government does not believe it must uphold these international obligations.



The fact that Omar Khadr's country has not given him the help that all Canadian citizens deserve is absolutely unacceptable. I and the NDP believe the Canadian government has a responsibility to ensure that he receives a fair trial in his home country in accordance with International and Canadian Law.



I share your concerns about the importance of finalizing the sub-committee’s work before the House rises and making a strong recommendation for Omar Khadr’s repatriation. Rest assured that I will do all I can to make this happen.



Again, thank you for your correspondence on this issue





Sincerely,



Wayne Marston, MP

Hamilton East-Stoney Creek


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From: S. Soltanpour [mailto:ssultanpour@yahoo.com]
Sent: June 3, 2008 11:29 PM
To: Marston, Wayne - M.P.
Subject: your stand on Khadar

Dear Mr. Marston



thanks for your stand on Canadian values and Human right principals by raising Mr. Khadar case at the parliment

Strong presence against U OF T president and police for criminalizing students who are demanding their rights

photos by Saeed Soltanpour

June 3, 08 at 2 pm- more than 250 students of U OF T and their supporters from Iranian community gathered in front of old city hall to send a strong message to the U OF T president , the police and prosecutor, that we do not let you guys to shut down freedom of expression. The police charged 14 students include four Irnaian decent,while they made a short sit in at the office of University of Toronto presindet on March 20, 08 by practising their civil rights to make their just demands.

while the auhtorities are giving us democracy lecture to us as immigrands , they are violataing the rights of studets for public education which is a principal of UN human right charter and alsoignoring the needs of our younger generation.


so many police officers and under cover police were attending the court session which adjourned to July 3, 08 .

It was very good to see officials from our community at the peaceful demonstration and supporting.
one of the NDP Mpp attended the event and supported the students while our MPP was absent.

espeical thanks to Mike from Roach law firm who are defending some of students for free. Roach and his colleagues always are supporting the Canadian civil rights .

Mr. Zerehi editor of Shahrvand , Dr.Hasan pour,University of York , Dr. Mosla Nezhad, Dr. Azadian, Mostafata Moshtaghian from Dalas, Asad Mozanebi, were among studetns supportersar are some of the community officials who attended the court

I am wondering those who want to run for I.C.C. who claiming to work fot the community were absent . Can we trust you guys to fight for the community at large, I do not think so.

U.S. imam fighting deportation talks of torture in Israeli detention

U.S. imam fighting deportation talks of torture in Israeli detention
By The Associated Press

A popular Muslim leader facing deportation asked that his children be removed from the New Jersey courtroom Monday before he broke into tears while describing graphic torture he said he was subjected to in Israeli detention.

The issue of torture is at the heart of the deportation proceedings against Mohammad Qatanani, a Palestinian who has been the mosque leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson since 1996. It is one of the largest mosques in the northeastern state.

The United States government has rejected his bid for permanent U.S. residency, saying Qatanani failed to disclose a 1993 arrest and conviction in Israel for being a member of Hamas on his green card application.

Qatanani denies the charges, saying he was detained, not arrested, by the Israelis along with many Palestinians at the time.

As he recounted his time in Israeli detention - describing being tied to a small chair with his hands bound, kept in a freezing cell, and subjected to violence and threats - several of his supporters in the packed courtroom began quietly weeping.

"Judge, you can not imagine," Qatanani said, his voice breaking. "They say 'We will kill your family.' They say: 'You know what your family is doing now? We will go to them, we will burn them.'"

Qatanani paused to compose himself before telling Immigration Judge Alberto J. Riefkohl, "At that time, you feel that death is better than life."

Earlier in the day, Qatanani described growing up poor in a Palestinian refugee camp. He said that since age 6, he has wanted to be a mosque leader - following in the footsteps of his father.

Qatanani's lawyers spent part of the morning trying to distance him from his controversial predecessor at the mosque, Mohammed el-Mezain, who was arrested and is facing re-trail on charges of funneling money to Palestinian terrorist groups.

Qatanani testified that he didn't get along with el-Mezain and never shared his vision. On the stand, Qatanani pointed to his commitment to interfaith dialogue, cooperation with law enforcement, and the integration of Muslims into mainstream American society.

Riefkohl, who is hearing the case in Newark federal court, said Monday would probably be the last day of the trial.

The judge said it could take him a month or more to decide whether Qatanani, his wife, and three of the couple's six children who are foreign-born can remain in the United States.

Mr. Harper it was our business.

Quebec gave security contract to Couillard boyfriend with criminal past
1 hour ago

QUEBEC — The Parti Quebecois says the Quebec government granted a prisoner-escort contract to a security company run by a man with a criminal record who was once the boyfriend of Julie Couillard.

Sylvain Simard, a Parti Quebecois member of the legislature, says the $166,000 contract was granted last year to the firm D.R.P. Investigation and Security Agency.

The company was owned by Couillard's ex-boyfriend, Robert Pepin, who once pleaded guilty to trafficking stolen goods and reportedly owed money to a Hells Angels loanshark when he committed suicide last year.

Newspaper reports have said Couillard played an active role in Pepin's company during other attempts to obtain airport security contracts.

Pepin was the third man with a shady past linked to Couillard.

Her revelations about her relationship with Maxime Bernier triggered the foreign affairs minister's resignation from cabinet this week.

Quebec Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis seemed to be unaware of the contract when it was brought up in the legislature today.
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Then the governemtn is foul crying on fithing crimes.

To be republic of Canada , We need a PM with guts-

Allan Fotheringham, Journalist who fights for Canada to be a republic

OLmert best friend of Harper and Miracle of ISrael

"We are a nation of 7 million people," he said. "We are a miracle, a living miracle."

Mr. Olmert it is not miracle it billons od dollars of US aid to Israel that seixed plestinain land and forced them out.
do not get wrong

The Israeli prime minister's mood brightened noticeably when the conversation turned to Canada, whose Middle East policies have become more vigorously pro-Israeli under Harper's rule.

"I'm looking forward with great excitement to meet personally Steve Harper, your prime minister," Olmert said. "He appears to me, just from talking to him on the phone so many times, a fantastic guy."

As for Canada, Olmert dismissed a reporter's description of the country as a middle power.

"I don't know what you mean, a medium power," he said.

"It's not America, okay. But who is America? Canada is an enormously powerful nation, very dominant in North America, very important, and shares with us the same basic values that we are so proud of. And Canada is a great friend."