Feds pay $31.3M settlement to 3 men unjustly jailed in Syria

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The federal government has paid a total of $31.3 million in settlements to three men wrongfully accused of links to terrorism and tortured in a Syrian prison, CTV News has learned.

The lump sum was split between Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin. Officials won't confirm how much of the total $31.3 million each man received.

The three men filed $100 million lawsuits over the federal government’s role in their imprisonment, claiming that their reputations were destroyed and they were left psychologically and physically shattered after the ordeal.

None of the men were ever charged with any terror offences.

All three men were all detained in Syria at different times. The first, El Maati, a former truck driver, was arrested in November 2001 after flying to Syria to celebrate his wedding.

The RCMP suspected that El Maati was planning an attack on nuclear facilities in Canada based on a map found in his truck. He never made it to his wedding.

Ottawa-based electronics engineer Almalki was held for 22 months in Syria starting in 2002 after the RCMP and CSIS sent out an international alert starting that he’d been on their watch list.

During his torture, Almalki falsely confessed to being an associate of al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. He later retracted the confession and said it was made under the extreme conditions.

Almalki’s torture included hundreds of lashings all over his body that lasted for hours. The severe beatings left him covered in blood and unable to walk.

Nureddin, the principal of an Islamic school in Toronto, was crossing the border from Iraq, where he had been visiting family, in December 2003 when he was detained. He was the subject of a bulletin sent from Canada to the CIA.

In March, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale formally apologized to the men on behalf of the government “for any role Canadian officials may have played in relation to their detention and mistreatment abroad and any resulting harm.”

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Seems to be common problem.

I think the government officials who are responsible should pay the bill personally
while licking floors at Mc Donalds

At a price of $31.3 M for just three ( how many more will there be?)
one wonders at what real terrorism would cost.

Then you find out most of the real terrorists that did do something (apparently) are strangely connected too or worked for, or were STOOGES for the federal governments of the states they attacked.

FBI once said Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza should work for them
http://www.crimeonline.com/2017/10/...hook-shooter-adam-lanza-should-work-for-them/

Former CIA Official Lied in Boston Bombing Cover-Up
http://www.madcowprod.com/2015/01/28/former-top-cia-official-lied-in-boston-bombing-cover-up/

FBI AGENT: THE CIA COULD HAVE STOPPED 9/11
http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-911-cia-344693
 
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