At Omar Khadr’s hearing today at Gitmo, it was reported that Khadr actually saw Maher Arar at al-Qaeda safe houses and training camps.
I will view this news with my usual amount of initial skepticism.
For now, I’m mostly interested that the Khadr and Arar-boosting mainstream media is actually covering the revelation, rather than burying it. Let me just say that that surprises me more than the Khadr/Arar revelation itself.
Khadr immediately identified Arar from a black and white photo he was shown during two weeks of interrogation that got underway Oct. 7, 2002, at a U.S. base in Afghanistan, FBI Special Agent Robert Fuller told Khadr’s war-crimes trial in Guantanamo Bay.
“He identified him by name,” Fuller testified. “He said he had never seen him in Canada.”
— Khadr linked Arar to terror
By Colin Perkel, THE CANADIAN PRESS
• CBC.ca – Khadr saw Arar at al-Qaeda safe houses, training camps: FBI agent
• CTV.ca – Khadr ID’d Arar as visitor to al Qaeda training camps
• Toronto Star – Omar Khadr linked Maher Arar to terrorism, court hears
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