Do you know what “rendition” is? Well, it is one of the tools used in the supposed war on terrorism to send those deemed to be terror suspects to third countries allowing interrogations to be ramped up to full-blown torture without the U.S. government actually, directly committing torture. How is that for liberty.

Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, was one such sufferer of this abominal policy. While in transit at New York’s JFT airport on 2002 Mr. Arar was nabbed, incarcerated for several days before being packed off to Syria for 10 months.

Arar was released and has been fighting to clear his name and rebuild his life, which had been devastated (as you can imagine). It was only in late 2005 after a two-year public inquiry that he was exonerated. It was determined that the RCMP (Canada’s FBI) had incorrectly labeled Mr. Arar as an Islamic fundamentalist and passed on information to the U.S.

Now the Canadian government has taken the step of apology and compensation.

However, Mr. Arar remains on U.S. no-fly lists as they continue to deem him a threat. The only threat that this man, and many of the other victims of rendition, is that of exposing a vicious policy of outsourcing torture. There has been enough suffering inflicted upon the world in the name of this so-called terror war.

Read about the Maher Arar story.
Reuters report
CNN Report

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