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October 21, 2008 the Commission of Inquiry Into The Action Of Canadian Officials In Relation To Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati And Muayyed Nureddin, released its report which cleared Almalki of any wrong doing and found that the Canadian government was complicit in his torture in Syria.
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Canadian men, detained and tortured in the Middle East during the security clampdown that followed 9/11, will get $ 31.25 million from the federal government. It is not known publicly if Almalki was one of the three.
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Theresa Sullivan, who asked him to "speculate" about Khadr's possible relations to Islamic militants, whether he had ever sold nuclear material to Pakistan, or walkie-talkies to the Taliban - all of which Almalki said seemed like ridiculous claims.
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Almalki was released on $ 125 bail in March 2004 and the Syrian State
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restaurant in a strip mall and talked about doctors and bought a print cartridge together. The following month, Almalki flew to
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affair indicated that the
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had moved back to Ottawa, he had a meeting with Almalki on October 12, 2001. They met at the Mango Café, a popular
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as their regional director, after he recuperated from an earlier injury, and Almalki found his leadership and
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