[canada] top italian mountie and al qaeda

The overseas image of the Canadian Mountie has always been squeaky clean. A judicial commission reported this week that RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli’s poorly trained and inexperienced anti-terrorist investigators passed along raw and inaccurate intelligence to the United States that very likely led to Canadian Maher Arar's deportation and torture in Syria as an al-Qaeda suspect. Even worse for Mr. Zaccardelli, the inquiry found the RCMP tried to cover its tracks by misleading senior government officials about the force's early involvement in the Arar case. More at Globe and Mail.