Arar did not just say he was tortured. He was tortured. There was a whole investigation into his claim as part of the Arar inquiry.
Don't expect any apology. The Bush administration after interrogating him eventually hauled him before an immigration hearing where his lawyer did not attend and it was decided that he was a member of Al Qaeda and should be deported to Syria. So not only is he not on the no fly list, the US still considers him a terrorist and member of Al Qaeda. The US still does not even admit kidnapping Al Masri for Godsake.
There is a huge report on the Arar matter with lots of material at the O'Connor Inquiry Website.
http://www.ararcommission.ca/eng/
--- Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote:
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> didn't get an apology
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> [ Note that this isn't an offical apology, it's just
> some folks in that
> other, sometimes-forgotten, branch saying they are
> personally sorry
> ... --JMH ]
>
> ---
>
> WASHINGTON - Lawmakers apologized Thursday to a
> Canadian engineer for
> his seizure by U.S. officials who took him to Syria
> where the man says
> he was tortured in what he called an "immoral"
> American anti-terror
> program called extraordinary rendition.
> Maher Arar, 37, appeared before a joint hearing of
> House subcommittees
> by video, because he is still on a U.S. government
> watch list.
>
> "Let me personally give you what our government has
> not: an apology,"
> said Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., as he opened the
> hearing. "Let me
> apologize to you and the Canadian people for our
> government's role in a
> mistake."
>
> [ ... ]
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/torture_rendition
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