Sayed Shah Sharifi: Special Forces

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Dept: The former head of Canada s elite special forces and our deputy ambassador to Afghanistan turned down Sayed Shah Sharifi s visa application last fall, just weeks after complaining to the Star , according to The Star. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced in 2009 that he wanted to protect Afghans who could show individual risk because they had worked with Canadians in Kandahar province, the Taliban heartland and kANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN A Canadian Army commander and a senior diplomat denied a highly praised Afghan combat interpreter a Canadian visa after wrongly accusing him of taking his stalled case to the news media, an internal document shows. They didn t believe Sharifi s claims that the Taliban want to kill him for assisting Canadian combat troops, an essential qualification for a visa under a special federal program. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.