By Paul Koring
In shackles and flanked by military guards, Omar Khadr will be taken this week from the razor-wire-ringed Guantanamo Bay prison compound where he has spent almost a third of his life to a …

From The Globe and Mail
After clerking for the Chief Justice of Canada, Jameel Jaffer moved to Manhattan from Ottawa to start a career in corporate law. The Harvard-educated lawyer was poised to reap a small …

Muslim Advocates welcomes the Obama administration’s announcement rescinding its policy of targeting travelers from 14 primarily Muslim countries for mandatory enhanced screening. Since this misguided policy was implemented in January, Muslim Advocates had been …

By STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA — The Harper government has always insisted it heard no warnings of torture risks facing Afghan detainees in 2006, but documents show that in the same year it was carefully …

By Andrew Duffy
OTTAWA — A U.S. historian who specializes in the war on terror has urged the judge in the Mohamed Harkat case to carefully distinguish between jihadists and terrorists.
Professor Brian Williams, associate Professor of …

By Murray Brewster and Jim Bronskill
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 …

Editorial in The New York Times
It is easy to see that a woman’s human rights are violated when a government requires her to wrap her body and face in an all-concealing veil, as the Taliban …

By Andy Worthington
With a stunning lack of sensitivity, President Barack Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force chose the anniversary of the president’s failed promise to close the prison to announce its conclusions regarding the eventual fate …

Community Advisory:
New Airport Security Measures Target Muslim Travelers
President Obama stated yesterday that “we will strengthen our defenses, but we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values …

By The Economist | LONDON
AMERICA has firmed up its response to the security failures that allowed Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a Detroit-bound flight with an explosive device in Amsterdam on Christmas …

By Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 20, 2009; A05
At a retirement party last week for the head of the FBI’s Washington field office, Muslim and Arab leaders presented the guest of honor with a …

By Glenn Greenwald
There is clearly a concerted effort by the Government to claim loudly that the threat posed by radicalized American Muslims is increasing.  Last week, The Los Angeles Times published a lengthy, scary story under the …

By Murray Brewster

OTTAWA — A former governor of Kandahar who is accused of personally torturing Afghans might have been removed from office as far back as 2006 if Canadian officials hadn’t defended him, according to …

By Tonda MacCharles
OTTAWA  –The RCMP has already launched an unprecedented probe of allegations that Canadian government officials turned a blind eye to torture in the past, raising the possibility it could act again on the …