"So glad that you're here again..."
"...For one more time... let your madness run with mine..."
-- TORONTO -- Iran is refusing to allow Canada to deport a member of an Iranian terrorist group who was arrested at Toronto's Pearson airport while carrying a recruitment letter from the "Martyrdom Lovers' Headquarters" in Tehran.I got nothin'.
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Iran refuses to allow the terrorist guy to be returned to Iran. Ok.
So, does this mean they're ok with us shooting him and burying him head down wrapped in bacon?
Or would they send the dreaded strongly worded letter?
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"phantom says... Iran refuses to allow the terrorist guy to be returned to Iran."
hmmm... it's not like mr jihad had actual permission from us to come here... but that didn't seem to slow him down much.
interestingly... the guy who tipped me off to this story also used the word "parachute".
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dude, why waste a perfectly good parachute?
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be a pretty ironic end for a guy who decided his life's work was to "terrorise" the rest of us.
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Well, don't think that he won't: the chances of him being released and disappearing like the 30,000 others who have done so is pretty high, don't forget.
"Iranina cultue are join of complicated in family one can be good Muslim one can be bad comonist and one can be martyer
of their choice"
Two out of three ain't good
or something like that
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sorry, libby... that pretending to be a foreigner thing... we already talked about that.
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attention readers:
just deleted another dozen irrational, profane rants from silly little potty-mouth "liberal supporter".
interestingly he has started footnoting his comments... no doubt to boost his squirrel-cred when he reposts them over at "canadian cynic".
please don't bother to respond to his taunts... i'll be deleting this idiocy as i get to it.
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There is a simple solution to keeping track of these refugees from the refugee program. They escaped their country, and then escaped the process in Canada.
Both the govts of the USA and Canada should contract with the depts of agriculture in both countries to track them. If they can track a cow in Washington to its birthplace in Alberta, and then tell us where all the calves of said cow are, they should be able to track a human. All they have to do is say, x number of refugess are suspected of having BSE. Tatoo and eartag all refugees as they land, and problem solved.
Tatoos and piercings are the in thing so that should not be a problem.
Oh, and when caught, jail them with a diet of pork, and daily dog walks. No prayer mats, foot washes, or korans allowed.
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"maryt says... If they can track a cow in Washington to its birthplace in Alberta..."
like they used to say on "the six million dollar man"... we have the technology.
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If Iran is accused of "terrorism", why would we want them to take an Iranian "terrorist" into their care? Wouldn't that make us less safe? According to the article, Iran considers him a terrorist. He was imprisoned there for involvement in a bombing.
I would think that they would want to keep him in custody for the same reason we might want to keep him in custody: to be sure that we know where he is, and that he isn't able to cause trouble.
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This is my favourite part: "Christine Csversko, spokeswoman for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, would not comment on the case but said it was 'deeply troubling anytime a foreign government refuses to issue travel documents to one of its citizens deemed inadmissible to Canada.'"
So... we're mad at Iran for following the same sort of policy that we have followed with respect to people like Omar Khadr?
MaryT says: "Tatoo [sic] and eartag all refugees as they land, and problem solved."
Why stop with all refugees? Why not tattoo and tag other groups of people we don't like, including legal residents and citizens?
The sort of technology you advocate--treating people like cows--was perfected over six decades ago. Tags. Tattoos. Trains. Cattle cars. IBM Hollerith computers. Imagine what we could do with today's technology!
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"anon1152 says... people like Omar Khadr?"
omar khadr is a terrorist. people like omar khadr ARE terrorists.
we don't want either of these guys here. you think omar is just gonna come home & get a job at the timmies drive-thru window?
and comparing fundamentalist, jihad-exporting iran to canada? please, please tell me you did that just to provoke me. because if you're serious... i honestly don't know that we have a lot to discuss here.
pls note that i just stacked three trailer loads of firewood... i'm tired & hungry and my tolerance for total bullshit is way, way down.
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For some people it is impossible to take a joke.
In my comment, I wasn't denying that Khadr is a terrorist. But Iran thinks that this Mr. Almeli is a terrorist. He isn't the sort of terrorist working FOR Iran.
From the article: "Before arriving in Canada, Mr. Ameli was a commander of a group called Mahdaviyat, which in 1999 car-bombed Ali Razini, a senior judicial officer in Tehran, leaving him paralyzed and killing his bodyguard.
"Mr. Ameli said he was not involved in the attack but that he later fled to the United Arab Emirates. When he returned to Iran, he said he was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for his activities.
"The sentence was later reduced to life imprisonment, he said."
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Was I "comparing fundamentalist, jihad-exporting Iran to Canada"? Well, yes, but only in terms of these specific cases. (Sortof like saying that "Iran and Canada both have sea coasts").
An Iranian citizen, who is a terrorist, is in Canadian custody. Iran will not take back their citizen.
A Canadian citizen, who is a terrorist, is in American custody. Canada does not want to take back its citizen.
Sounds similar to me.
I wasn't so much arguing that we should take one position or another as I was suggesting that we should be relatively consistent. We should not complain that another country is doing X if we are also doing X. Especially if we are not going to acknowledge that or explain it. It makes us look like hypocrits.
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"anon1152 says... A Canadian citizen, who is a terrorist, is in American custody"
a canadian of convenience, whose father (released from pakistani custody after jean chretien intervened on his behalf) was subsequently killed in a gunbattle with police, is involved in a terrorist attack on american troops.
this piece of terrorist shite is now in american custody after killing an american medic in a firefight and will, hopefully be tried for his crimes. the canadian government respects the wishes and legal process of out nato allies.
how is iran, a known exporter of terrorism and a supporter of the jihadis in afghanistan... (you remember, the people who are killing canadian soldiers?) in any way, shape or form comparable to us?
if you think this is the same situation... might i suggest you take a lengthy sabbatical in tehran... and get back to us with your impressions?
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I'm willing to accept for the moment that Khadr is a bad guy who should be in custody. But if we do not want to take Canadians back to Canada--Canadians who may or may not be guilty of crimes (Khadr, Arar, Abdelrazik, Suaad Hagi Mohamud) why should we expect another country to be any different? Or rather, how can we lecture another country for not being different? How will that look to, say, the Iranian people?
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But... let's forget about how we're perceived by the Iranian people. (I realize that argument's going no where).
Even if we agree that Iran is a "terrorist exporter," and therefore anything we do cannot be compared to them, no matter what it is, I still don't get why you're mad that Iran won't take him back.
You seem to be arguing that Canada should send "a member of an Iranian terrorist group" back to Iran, "a known exporter of terrorism and a supporter of the jihadis in afghanistan".
If Osama bin Laden was arrested at a Canadian Airport, but had not committed any crimes in Canada, would you want to send him back to Mullah Omar? If not, why not? How is the situation different?
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"anon1152 says... if we do not want to take Canadians back to Canada"
read slower.
the usa has not tried to deport omar to canada... in fact, they want to try his jihadi ass & give him a leavenworth vacation. thus canada has not refused to take omar back because they haven't been asked.
otoh... canada has absolutely no reason or duty to accept the iranian terrorist. they want to deport him to his country of origin. iran has refused to take him back.
two different situations.
you think we should just release this guy... maybe stick him in scarborough social housing next to mama khadr? will you offer to take him in?
i'm curious. you're pushing this thing really hard. why is that? where exactly do your sympathies lie here?
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"you think we should just release this guy... maybe stick him in scarborough social housing next to mama khadr? will you offer to take him in?"
Where exactly did I say that?
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One thing I don't want is to send "terrorists" back to the mothership.
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"anon1152 says... One thing I don't want is to send "terrorists" back to the mothership."
then sack up, my learned friend... two words... firing... squad.
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...anon 1152 just fainted.
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