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...brought about changes in the attitudes of a traditionally tolerant Danish society. The current conservative government, for example, rules in coalition with the openly anti-immigrant Danish People's Party. In response, a new political party - dubbed the New Alliance - was set up in May, electing its leader, Syrian-born Nasser Khader, as the country's first-ever member of parliament from the 8% of the population whose origins are foreign. And, in the seven weeks since the Christiania riots, the New Alliance has become Denmark's third largest party, boasting 20,000 members and polling 15 percent...
...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...
...lawyers, and the U.S. both required and monitored assurances that countries would treat their prisoners in accordance with international human rights norms - for example, that they would not be abused or tortured. President Bush says the U.S. does not condone torture. But in one 2002 case, Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was intercepted while changing planes in New York City and shipped via Jordan to Syria. He was held for a year, and says he was beaten. Before 2001, it would have been inconceivable for the U.S. to send anyone to a country with Syria's long record...
...Length, in years, of the prison sentence Syrian-born Imad Yarkas received in Madrid for conspiracy, in Europe's biggest trial of al-Qaeda suspects connected to the Sept. 11 attacks...
...Years in prison Syrian-born Imad Yarkas was sentenced to by a Madrid court for conspiracy in Europe's biggest trial of al-Qaeda suspects connected to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks...