he eventually confessed to anything
his tormentors wanted him to say.
“You just give up, he said.
“You become like an animal.”
---Maher Arar.
A Canadian engineer sent Syria.
A year later, in October, 2003,
Arar was released without charges. …
Imad Moustapha, the Syrian Ambassador
in Washington, announced
that his country had found no links between
Arar and terrorism. Arar, it turned out,
had been sent to Syria on orders from
Arar and terrorism. Arar, it turned out,
had been sent to Syria on orders from
the U.S. government, under a secretive
program known as “extraordinary rendition.”
This program had been devised as
This program had been devised as
a means of extraditing terrorism suspects
from one foreign state to another for
interrogation and prosecution.
Critics contend that the unstated purpose of
such renditions is to subject the suspects to
aggressive methods of persuasion
that are illegal in America—including torture.
interrogation and prosecution.
Critics contend that the unstated purpose of
such renditions is to subject the suspects to
aggressive methods of persuasion
that are illegal in America—including torture.
