Reply #4: Thanks for posting this, RB

[Minstrel Boy]

"If Arar is a terrorist, he is unlike any other. In contrast with other suspects dispatched to harsh justice, Arar didn't vanish into oblivion in his Middle East cell. Nor, after his release, did he recoil from public view," writes Time's Canadian Bureau Chief Steven Frank.

"Instead Arar, who has a modest home in Ottawa, has stepped into the spotlight, emerging as a vocal proponent of human rights in Canada, a symbol of how fear and injustice have permeated life in the West since 9/11."

The magazine says it was Arar's persistence that earned an inquiry into his deportation, and the distinction of Canadian Newsmaker of the Year.

And, Frank writes, Arar also took the gutsy step of launching a pair of lawsuits targeting some of the most powerful people in North America -- from former prime minister Jean Chretien to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1103475914757_1?hub=Canada