An immigration adjudicator has called into question Ottawa’s assertions about 19 detained men by ordering one of them freed from jail yesterday, ruling that there “does not exist a reasonable suspicion [to hold the man] on grounds of security.” The adjudicator’s words contrast starkly with those of immigration officials who have suggested that the men — 18 Pakistanis and one Indian — are possibly an al-Qaeda sleeper cell. In a bid to keep them jailed, officials have further said the men lived in cohesive clusters and seemed to be interested in nuclear-power plants, the CN Tower, flight lessons and making explosives. It is an ominous portrait that has been painted only in broad strokes as a police probe continues. Yet Aina Martens, a civil servant with quasi-judicial powers, presented a different picture when she presided over the detention hearing of a Pakistani suspect named Mohammad Akhtar. Full Story
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