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December 07, 2006
Back to your tent of hate
Peter Worthington's still sure Maher Arar's guilty of something:
And the heat has been on the Mounties ever since Maher Arar was wrongfully accused of consorting with al Qaida terrorists on the basis of false RCMP allegations, and deported by the Americans to Syria where he claims he was tortured. As an aside, it's always been puzzling why Syria would torture someone the Americans think is an anti-American terrorist, but that's another story that's never been satisfactorily answered.
It's called extraordinary rendition. It's been going on for a while. But no, no, Syria is pure, ruthlessly logical, anti-American evil! If they're torturing someone then that person must be... what? A Lebanese democracy activist? The guy lived in Ottawa, for heaven's sake. Of all the things people have insinuated Maher Arar to be, or to have been, would a single one make him an enemy of the Syrian state?
But look at me getting all upset over nothing.
"A mistake was made in the Arar case," like Worthington says. "Big deal."
Posted by Chris Selley at December 7, 2006 08:08 PM
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