The Globe: An Afghan-Canadian who served as an interpreter for Canada’s military has breathed new life into the detainee controversy with troubling allegations that this country’s soldiers deliberately transferred prisoners to torture. Ahmadshah Malgarai also told a Commons committee yesterday that he came across evidence troops killed an innocent Afghan teen in 2007 and then tried to cover it up. A few hours later, the country’s top soldier issued a statement saying the Canadian military will probe these “grave accusations.” It was a remarkably different tone from last fall, when the Harper government and the military dismissed other allegations, calling them as groundless.
full story