I am writing to encourage you to pick up a copy of Kerry Pither's Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror. Moreover, I ask that you promote it on your email list. It is a compelling and important account of what happened to the men whose stories were the subject of the Iacobucci Inquiry: Ahmad El Maati, Abdullah Almalki, Maher Arar and Muayyed Nureddin.
It can be purchased on line at www.Amazon.ca or www.Octopus.ca. If we and our friends purchase 400 by Saturday we can make it a "best-seller" in Canada.
The book has received good reviews in the Globe, Toronto Star and Canwest, and here's what Cameron Ward wrote about it for the Georgian Straight: "Writing in a compelling, fast-paced dramatic style, Pither exposes the ineptitude, if not the outright malevolence, of other Canadian officials who not only turned a blind eye to the plight of the four Canadians as they rotted in jail, but actually relayed interrogation questions to their Syrian torturers.
The Syrians apparently felt they were doing Canada's bidding and the Canadian consular officials who were in a position to disabuse them of that notion, and return the four men to their Canadian homes, utterly neglected to help.
Pither names names, and her portrayal of Franco Pillarella, former Canadian ambassador to Syria, and his subordinate Leo Martel, is less than flattering. The reader cannot help but be angered by the obtuse ignorance of these men and their complete failure to discharge their primary duty, which was to safeguard the interests of Canadian citizens abroad."
Kerry has a blog where you can read more about the book and link to bookstores, at www.kerrypither.com.
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