Egyptian Vice President May Have Questioned Tortured Canadian

Ahmad Abou El Maati says he recognized Omar Suleiman on the news as the man who interrogated him in 2003.

El Maati was arrested by U.S. security officials in 2001 during the international security sweep following the 9-11 attacks, and spent the next two years being tortured in Middle Eastern prisons before being released. He had fought with militants in Afghanistan before becoming a truck driver in Toronto, and is now suing Canadian officials for his ordeal. He believes one of his interrogators was Omar Suleiman, the man to whom Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak delegated some of his powers in a controversial speech Thursday. Although El Maati said his session with Suleiman did not involve torture, for over a decade the new Egyptian vice president presided over an intelligence apparatus that has been widely accused of human rights abuses.