A Confession? In Egypt?

Egypt is one of the nations the US has called upon when it needed al-Qaeda suspects interrogated. Like Syria, Egypt has a horrible reputation for extracting confessions by torture.

Now Egypt claims to have obtained (extracted) a confession from Mohamed el-Attar that he was spying for Israel while working in a Toronto bank. El-Attar is alleged to have used his position to glean financial information on Arab suspects that was handed over to the Mossad. He was arrested in Cairo in January.

El-Attar is rumoured to have acquired Canadian citizenship. The bank he supposedly worked at has not been identified.

Amnesty International Canada has called for a full investigation by the Canadian government, given Egypt's reputation for torture. So far not a peep out of the Harper administration.