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I'LL WAIT UNTIL SAMPSON GETS

I'LL WAIT UNTIL SAMPSON GETS BACK

I'd love to get angry about the handing over to indefinite U.S. detention, without trial or charge, of Canadian and alleged Al-Qaeda member Mohamed Mansour Jabarah. (The MS-NBC story gets it wrong, of course... Jabarah was repatriated from Oman by Canada's spy agency, CSIS, then immediately handed over to the Americans.) I would have thought there'd be charges we could have held the guy on in this country, if any evidence did come out of his months of rotting in an Omani jail first. But Bill Sampson is still sitting in a Saudi jail facing death for a crime he almost certainly didn't commit, so if the Canadian government wanted to start helping its citizens abroad for a change there's at least one higher up in the queue. Given the relative conditions of Saudi jails (now with more beheadings!) and American, I think I know which one can afford to cool their heels a little while longer.