[news] Canada’s First Post-9/11 Rendition Survivor Demands Public Review

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

While most Canadians are familiar with the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian survivor of rendition to torture, few have heard of **[Benamar] Benatta**, an Algerian refugee claimant who was handed over to the Americans on September 12, 2001. Canadian officials wrongfully identified Mr. Benatta as a suspect in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 solely based on prejudicial suspicions – he was a Muslim man who knew something about airplanes.

  


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