Tories open Afghan records release

The Conservatives say they are ready to change an agreement with two opposition parties to allow the publication of secret documents on Canadian prisoners in Afghanistan.

It is after that the two judges at the centre of the screening process documents sent a letter to the three party leaders involved to inform them that the records cannot be released when the Parliament is not sitting.

The documents were supposed to be released by Friday under a deadline imposed by the Bloc Québécois, after the party has threatened to walk away from the examination procedure. The Committee of Deputies awaiting a summary of the most sensitive documents by the judges.

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff immediately called the Conservative leader, Stephen Harper and Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe to join in urging the judges to release their final report as expected.

Shortly after, the conservative candidate Laurie Hawn, who was a member of the Group of Deputies, also encouraged judges to disclose the documents.

"We are willing to facilitate what needed to release the documents, including amending the agreement if necessary," Hawn told CBC News Thursday night.

Ignatieff said that Canadians have the right to consult documents and noted that the Conservatives were forced to reconcile with the opposition by parties threatens to be declared contempt of Parliament.

"The Parliament is Supreme - not Stephen Harper," he said. "" "". We have brave men and women serving in the Canadian Forces and the Canadian public to overcome this problem and only complete and immediate transparency which will reach. ?

But Duceppe, the other leader of the opposition who signed the memorandum of understanding, said CBC News late Thursday afternoon, it did not yet view the letter of the judges.

Review of the documents is the second report on the sidelines by the onset of elections, as all parties have requested the release of the Auditor General's report on expenditures for G8 last year and the g-20 summits following the leak of a scathing report project.

The memorandum of understanding signed by Harper, Ignatieff, and Duceppe has agreed to the formation of a Committee of members of Parliament to determine how to communicate the documents.

Of judges, by letter dated Wednesday, said that, while the memorandum "provided that certain conditions it will survive the dissolution of the Parliament, if these conditions are met cannot be verified until the House reconvenes.".

Judges say they will continue to work to finalize the report by Friday and prepare thousands of documents for release.

"However, since there is no Committee in existence that we can deliver... we keep this material pending the convening of a new Parliament and other branches which could be provided to the panel of judges at the time"writing judges.""

In a historic decision last spring, the Chairman of the House of Commons held the Conservatives had breached parliamentary privilege in refusing members their right to see documents. But the President Peter Milliken also give the Government and the opposition the chance to find a way to share all taking into account the concerns of national security of the Government.

The Committee was struck in May last in a compromise agreement which avoids a finding of contempt of court against the Government which would have triggered a vote of no confidence and potential an early election.

The parties have agreed to contribute two members each to the Commission, which works in collaboration with the Group of legal experts to decide what can be communicated to Parliament.

The NDP from the working group then that they were still negotiating the terms, supporting the Tories were not being cooperative and the process would lead to the Canadians display records.

The documents are in the centre of the charges that prisoners were tortured by Afghan authorities after released by Canadian troops. The Government argued that releasing the documents represented a threat to national security and the safety of Canadian troops in Afghanistan. Accessibility links

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Afghan woman killed in NATO convoy crash - the guardian

A British soldier patrolling the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. The crash triggered violent protests NATO convoy in the capital. Photo: Ahmad Masood/Reuters

Kabul police have said a British military convoy for crashing a group of women on a busy street in Kabul on Wednesday, one person killed and injured were two was responsible.

The incident, the spectators on the vehicles throwing stones you will be asked comes at a time of increased tension between Afghans and foreigners after days of unrest raised through U.S. Pastor burn a Quran in an incident, the last week to the death of seven led UN employees.

A traffic accident with us troops provoked in the year 2006 in Kabul the most serious acts of violence which has seen the capital, with the offices of aid agencies aLicht set.

Hashmatullah Stanekzai, a police spokesman Kabul, said the troops involved were British, though, that was not confirmed by the NATO.

Three business people working on the main road in the western Kabul said had black armored all-wheel drive vehicles was moving with speed, when ploughed the lead vehicle in the women, of which 4 m (13) on the road was raised. You have been shopping and try to cross the street when the first vehicle on his breaks struck, and crashed the car behind into.

"The soldiers came out of the car and began treating the women, but not someone they come and help, not made", said Saboor, a grocer, a shop in the vicinity of the collision has website. "But when the soldiers tried to leave, sorting out, the crowd was completely very angry without the problem and throw rocks at the cars began." You attacked also the guard of the nearby Ministry of water and electricity.

In contrast to the Afghan police, nor the soldiers fire on the demonstrators, but open Saboor said that an officer the extent threatened with a pistol.

A statement by the NATO international security assistance force said the vehicles on, after the wounded to a hospital had been taken.

Police had earlier wrongly reported that three people had died, including a person who was shot had.

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