Maher Arar illegally held and tortured

Posted on October 29, 2006 by probabilityZero

“we support your war of terror” – borat

Maher Arar is a 34-year-old wireless technology consultant. He was born in Syria and came to Canada with his family at the age of 17. He became a Canadian citizen in 1991. On Sept. 26, 2002, while in transit in New York’s JFK airport when returning home from a vacation, Arar was detained by US officials and interrogated about alleged links to al-Qaeda. Twelve days later, he was chained, shackled and flown to Syria, where he was held in a tiny “grave-like” cell for ten months and ten days before he was moved to a better cell in a different prison. In Syria, he was beaten, tortured and forced to make a false confession.

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6 Responses to Maher Arar illegally held and tortured

  1. fruitbythefoot says:
    October 29, 2006 at 6:05 pm

    Yeah, I heard about this a while ago. Really scary, actually.

  2. unknowable says:
    October 31, 2006 at 5:21 pm

    “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” ~ Ben Franklin

  3. zeldagamer says:
    October 31, 2006 at 5:39 pm

    “we support your war of terror” – borat

    LOL, I want to see that movie.

  4. probabilityZero says:
    October 31, 2006 at 5:43 pm

    I want to see that movie.

    Yeah, same here. I’ve always liked the Ali G Show.

  5. clowd says:
    October 31, 2006 at 6:34 pm

    ROFL, great quote.

  6. A True Canadian says:
    November 20, 2006 at 9:03 am

    Maher Arar Is a muslim TERRORIST. He is a conspiritor to Defame Canadians and our Justice system. Unfortunately with the asswipe bill of rights, it has allowed these terorists to HAVE thier right to be here. We are at war…..so we should round uop all muslims and EXTERMINATE them. After all we dont want another 911 do we.Oh, so you think this is brutal and unfair to what you would call the innocent? Bush already killed over 650,000 of them in thier country ….one at a time….civilians NOT military. Why not END the war immediately. It worked for WWII why not now. Because its all about OIL.

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