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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 08:43 PM
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Maher Arar - all this torture talk makes me wonder -
Will he ever get his day in a US court?
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 08:50 PM
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1. Your going to have to be a little more precise here.. Who is "he"? n/t
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Garbo 2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 09:30 PM
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2. Canadian citizen picked up on layover at JFK airport and rendered to Syria for
Edited on Fri May-08-09 10:01 PM by Garbo 2004
"interrogation." Just a guy who was on his way home to Canada and wound up spending about a year in a Syrian prison.
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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 09:36 PM
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3. Thanks, heard of it, but didn't associate the name or the citizenship...n/t
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 09:37 PM
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4. K&R
Probably not
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 09:40 PM
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5. Didn't he just get the RIGHT to his court trial?
Is he just sitting around or is he waiting for some prosecutor to take his case?

Got a link?
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Garbo 2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-08-09 10:30 PM
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6. Still waiting for appeals court to render decision after Dec 2008 rehearing
apparently: http://ccrjustice.org/ourcases/current-cases/arar-v.-ashcroft

February 2009 NYT editorial "The Unfinished Case of Maher Arar" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/opinion/18wed2.html
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