> 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.
> There is a huge
> report on the Arar matter with lots of material at the O'Connor Inquiry
> Website.
> http://www.ararcommission.ca/eng/
Yes. Just a dreadful episode of US imperial criminality. Arar was not an immigrant or someone with a foreign passport. He was a bona fide citizen of Canada, who lived in Canada since he was 17. This was the extra-judicial kidnapping and state-sponsored torture of a Canadian citizen.
Those of you who teach university classes which cover political issues, I encourage you to download the Youtube reports on Arar (Andersen Cooper did a fine story, among others) and show them to your classes. It's one of the most effective teaching tools for explaining why human rights laws and democratic accountability matter.
-- DRR