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Emergency Passport: Canadian Officials and Hamilton Man

emergency passport: Canadian officials have been trying to remove Sumaida ever since he arrived in Toronto in 1990 for asylum and was deemed inadmissible to the country a year later for his espionage activities that they said made him complicit in crimes against humanity, according to Hamilton Spectator. In fact, Ottawa did deport him once to Tunisia the birthplace of his Iraqi diplomat father, where he himself had never been in 2005, but Sumaida assumed a false identity, Brandon Timothy Casey, and returned on an emergency passport. A former double agent for the Israeli intelligence service and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, the now 52-year-old Hamilton man said his life would be in danger if he was sent anywhere in the Middle East. After living a low-profile life over the last decade, raising a family with a job in construction, Sumaida said he recently got a letter in the mail informing him that a pre-removal risk assessment had been initiated to determine if it's safe for him to be deported to Tunisia again. Just don't make me go back there and be tortured, Sumaida told the Star. I just want to stay alive in Canada, even with no status. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.