Afghanistan: The Globe and Mail's agenda at work

The main front page headline today:

Military investigates claim Canadians abused detainees:

Civilian agency also wants answers after allegations at least one Afghan was beaten

And inside the paper:

Ottawa silent on fate of captured terror suspects:

No accounting for scores of detainees that have been handed to Americans, Afghans

For a corrective, read this column in the Calgary Herald:

Soldiers' triumphs lost in the spin

Mark C.

Update: The good professor who raised the issue seems to see no need for any actual investigation:

An Ottawa professor is calling for the resignations of Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor and the Chief of Defence Staff Rick Hillier for what he says is their failure to address possible abuse of detainees by Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.

Amir Attaran, a University of Ottawa law professor, said O'Connor and Hillier should resign over Canada's "routine practice of handing over prisoners to known torturers."..

Posted by markc at February 7, 2007 07:27 AM