Maher Arar Saga Not Over Yet

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A bit of a run-down of the saga, from someone relatively close to the case, as well as what Canucks should demand from their government because of their failures (and U.S. failures) in this matter..

Maher Arar Saga Not Over Yet
American and Canadian anti-terror practices on trial

February 8 2007
Counterbias.com
by Faisal Kutty


“My priority right now is to clear my name,” said Maher Arar during his first public appearance in 2003 upon his return after being tortured for over a year in Syria. The Arar Commission findings which cleared him and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apology last week – which came after months of negotiations – go a long way in helping Arar fulfill his first wish. Even though Harper apologized “for any role Canadian officials may have played,” some believe the apology did not go far enough, while the Commission squarely blamed Canadian and American officials.

Syrian-born Arar was detained by U.S. authorities on September 26, 2002, during a stopover in New York en route from Tunisia to Canada. The Canadian citizen was subsequently sent to Syria for torture under the controversial American practice of “extraordinary rendition” even though he had repeatedly requested that he be sent to Canada. He was eventually released and returned to Canada in October 2003 after Canada put pressure on Syria.

Continue.. http://www.counterbias.com/847.html

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1. Has all torture by employees of the Syrian government

acting in their official capacity as employees of the Syrian government now ceased? If it has ceased, when did it stop?