Watch list dispute highlights U.S.-Canadian tensions

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y Shane Harris, National Journal

The U.S. government believes that Maher Arar, a Canadian telecommunications engineer, has ties to terrorists, and it has placed his name on a U.S. watch list that bars him from entering the country.

That alone would be unremarkable because U.S. watch lists contain thousands of names -- except that the Canadian government, after a highly publicized inquiry last year, concluded that there is no basis for believing that Arar is connected to Islamic radicals. The inquiry also determined that, based on all of the evidence collected by Canadian officials, there is nothing to indicate that Arar committed a crime or that he poses a threat ...

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