Torture In, Torture Out: The Arar Rendition Case

By Spencer Ackerman - August 13, 2007, 3:42 PM

In 2004, a Syrian-Canadian named Maher Arar became an international symbol of war-on-terror excesses. U.S. officials, Arar told the press, detained him at Kennedy Airport in 2002 on suspicion of involvement in terrorism and whisked him to Syria for interrogation, where he was tortured for ten months before the Syrians released him. (Even they doubted that Arar was in league with al-Qaeda after his interrogation.) Allegations that Canadian authorities were involved in torture prompted an official inquiry, which last fall exonerated Arar of any link to terrorism.

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