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CSIS played role in Afghan prisoner interrogations
By Murray Brewster and Jim Bronskill, THE CANADIAN PRESS, Published: Toronto SunOTTAWA - 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 Canadian Press has learned.
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.
The spy agency's previously unknown role in questioning detainees adds a new dimension to the controversy about the handling and possible torture of prisoners by Afghan security forces.
Ottawa calls for review of detainee documents
CBC NewsThe federal government has asked a former Supreme Court of Canada judge to review whether there would be "injurious" effects if some Afghan detainee documents were made public.
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said Friday in the House of Commons he was appointing Frank Iacobucci to go over documents relating to the handing over of detainees to Afghan authorities by Canadian Forces.
"In the case of injurious information, he will report to me on whether the information or a summary of it can be disclosed and report on the form of disclosure or any conditions on disclosure," Nicholson said.
He called it "an independent, comprehensive review."
What Ottawa doesn't want you to know
Jacob's note: The Canadian Armed Forced have been involved in opium and hashish production arrests, so some of these detainees that were tortured may have been simple Afghan poppy farmers, not enemy combatants.
Government was told detainees faced 'extrajudicial executions, disappearances, torture and detention without trial'
By. Paul Koring, Globe and Mail
The Harper government knew from its own officials that prisoners held by Afghan security forces faced the possibility of torture, abuse and extrajudicial killing, The Globe and Mail has learned.
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