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...cell 2 of the Palestine Branch was Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian telecommunications engineer, whose tale of captivity has since become a cause celebre in Canada. Arar had left Syria at age 17 and married a Tunisian fellow student at McGill University in Montreal. On his way home from a vacation in Tunisia in September 2002, he stopped to change planes at JFK Airport in New York City. There, FBI agents arrested him at an immigration control desk, and ordered him deported to his native Syria - even though he was traveling on a Canadian passport. He was flown...
...been trained at a terror camp in Afghanistan. "I was ready to accept a 10-, 20-year sentence, and say anything, just to get to another place," he tells Grey in the book. After nearly a year in captivity, Arar was released and flew home to his family in Canada. A 1,200-page Canadian government report last month absolved him of any suspicion. Arar sued the U.S. government, but a New York federal judge dismissed the lawsuit on the ground that the case could not be heard for security reasons; Arar is now appealing that ruling. Last month...
Frankly, it is a tough job being a fashion columnist. One wouldn’t think so, but it actually takes up quite a bit of time. During the week, I periodically get hate mail from PETA and weirdoes from Canada. On the weekends, I get bombarded with fashion questions while I am pretending to have fun at whatever dank and uncivilized gathering I happen to be attending...
...might be convinced that we would be greeted in the streets with flowers as liberators, that the war would last scarcely six months and that the cost both financially and in the blood of our sons and daughters - as well as Iran's - would be minimal. Ziggy Pantazis Sarnia, Canada Your cover story on the possibility of war with Iran was right: there is indeed an out-of-control President hell-bent on forcing a war between Iran and the U.S. But that President is George W. Bush. He is the President who started an unprovoked war with Iraq under...
...pain for hours. Al-Qaeda will never give up, so it is critical to get information from its members that could prevent another attack. Do we need to see more Americans die before people stop showing concern for the well-being of suicidal, psychopathic killers? Pierre Gauthier Pointe-Claire, Canada...