By PAUL KORING

TORONTO, ONTARIO – Abousfian Abdelrazik, a 46-year-old Sudanese Canadian fingered by CSIS as a terrorist suspect, has been marooned in Khartoum for nearly five years as successive Canadian governments have refused him a passport and thwarted other efforts to bring him home to his family in Montreal.

Mr. Abdelrazik – who faces no criminal charges – denies he belongs to al-Qaeda or has ever been to Afghanistan. He can’t explain why Canadian, French and U.S. counterterrorist agencies have labelled him a terrorist.

“I love Canada and I want to go home, I want to see my children, I want to live a normal life,” Mr. Abdelrazik said during one of several telephone interviews from Khartoum.

The Montreal resident said Canadian diplomats told him “they cannot help me because Canada is a member of the United Nations.”

In 2006, some government – perhaps Canada’s – added Mr. Abdelrazik’s name to the UN Security Council’s list of international terrorist suspects, which requires member states to freeze his assets.

He is also on the no-fly list maintained by airlines, which are compiled with the covert input from government counterterrorism agencies, including Canada’s.

Three years earlier, in August of 2003, Mr. Abdelrazik was plucked off the streets of Khartoum after returning to Sudan from Montreal to visit his ailing mother. No reason has ever been given for his arrest.

However, CSIS documents marked “secret” and now in the possession of The Globe and Mail say Sudan imprisoned Mr. Abdelrazik “at our request.” Blacked-out portions that obliterate sections of many pages whenever there are references to security agencies may explain why.

CSIS had been interested in Mr. Abdelrazik since 1999 – and perhaps earlier – when he associated with several other Muslim men believed to be linked to al-Qaeda. CSIS agents questioned him numerous times.

Mr. Abdelrazik’s lawyer asserts that Canada was complicit in his detention, calling it “another form of extraordinary rendition.”

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