...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

If at first you don't succeed, sue the P.M.: Since releasing the video of poor Omar being "harassed" by a nasty CSIS official weren't enough to get him sprung from Gitmo, his lawyers have come up with another tactic. He is now "suing" Stephen Harper, demanding "repatriation". (The word is in scare quotes because, although he was born in Canada, Omar has never lived here, which makes the idea of "repatriating" him to what is essentially a strange country for which he and his family feel absolutely no patriotism rather absurb.)

Why stop there? If they can make Omar's ordeal sound sufficiently horrific, maybe his lawyers can squeeze the government for multi-millions in compensation, a la that other torture victim, Maher Arar.

Posted by: scaramouche at 13:33 | link | comments

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