Immigration Minister : Terrorist Ties

Jason Kenney Dept: But Immigration Minister Jason Kenney argued that those who doubt the government’s pursuit of people alleged to have terrorist ties should be more skeptical about the suspects, according to Globe And Mail. The Montreal newspaper La Presse this week reported on a summary of an intercepted conversation in the summer of 2000 in which two men, Adil Charkaoui and Abousfian Abdelrazik, appear to discuss ways to blow up a passenger flight from Montreal. CSIS would not confirm the authenticity of the document, a four-page 2004 report to Transport Canada security officials, but asked La Presse to withhold the name of agents named in it, the newspaper reported and lawyers for the two men insist the leak of the previously unreported summary to a newspaper this week is a defamatory smear using what was previously described as “unproven” information by a Federal Court judge, suggesting it was intended to undermine efforts of one of them to get his name removed from a no-fly list. “I read the protected confidential dossiers on such individuals, and I can tell you that, without commenting on any one individual, some of this intelligence makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck,” he said. “I just think people should be patient and thoughtful and give the government and its agencies the benefit of the doubt.” As reported in the news.
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