Calls Mount for Bush to Apologize to Torture Victim
Bush is still, as expected, refusing to offer any apology to Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian citizen who was arrested in America and deported for torture. Surely if Bush thought torture was as abhorent as he claims, this apology would be given immediately and from the heart?
It is impossible not to be outraged listening to Arar's testimony.
“The most fundamental question that has not been answered yet is: why did the US government decide to send me to Syria and not to Canada?” he said.
The US government has sought to dismiss Arar’s case on the grounds that it would violate state secrets.
It acknowledges conducting “renditions” or secret international transfers of terrorist suspects, often to countries with dubious human-rights records, saying the programme has prevented further attacks.
Dean Boyd, a US justice department spokesman, said Arar was deported to Syria because he maintained dual citizenship there, and that Syria had assured the US that Arar would not be tortured.
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