Canadian sent to Syria for torture...

Or does Syria employ CIA agents?

Perhaps it's because he was FROM Syria? It's hardly the fault of the US that Syria has tougher interrogation tactics than Canada or the US now is it? It's hardly the fault of the US that Canada declared he was a terrorist now was it?

You have your brithes in a knot because the US deported a person to their home country when that person was declared a terrorist.

What am I missing here Cycloptichorn?

There is the little problem that he was not coming to the United States, and that he was on his way to Canada when he was detained. As he is a Canadian citizen who was travelling through New York to Canada, why was he detained, and why was he not sent to Canada, the nation of which he is a citizen?

why was he detained,

You have your brithes in a knot because the US deported a person to their home country when that person was declared a terrorist. Are you suggesting that we should no longer trust Canadian intelligence? That we should ignor warnings of terrorist suspects?

Canada is to blame for implicating him, but they didn't torture anybody.

The RCMP contact, Inspector Michel Cabana, "was under the impression that Mr. Arar would only be detained for a short time," O'Connor's report said. "In his view, Mr. Arar was being held in a country with many of the same values as Canada."

Setanta wrote:

why was he detained,

It's like you aren't even paying attention.

Setanta wrote:

There is the little problem that he was not coming to the United States, and that he was on his way to Canada when he was detained. As he is a Canadian citizen who was travelling through New York to Canada, why was he detained, and why was he not sent to Canada, the nation of which he is a citizen?

Exactly.

"No evidence that Canadian officials participated or
acquiesced in the American's authorities decision to detain and remove Mr. Arar to Syria (…)
and there is no evidence that any Canadian authorities - Royal Canadian Mounted Police
(RCMP), Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) or others - were complicit in those
decisions." However, the Commissioner also notes that: "It is very likely that, in making the
decisions to detain and remove Mr. Arar to Syria, the U.S. authorities relied on information
about Mr. Arar provided by the RCMP. Although I cannot be certain without evidence of the
American authorities, the evidence strongly supports this conclusion".

[...]


About the cases of Messrs. Almalki, El Maati and Nureddin, three men who were also
detained in Syria and have alleged they were tortured, the report states that the cases of these
three men raise troubling questions about the role of Canadian officials and recommends that the
cases be reviewed through an independent and credible process that is able to address the
integrated nature of the underlying investigations.

FreeDuck wrote:

Exactly.

Exactly, we should ignore information given to us by a friendly country pertaining to a potentially dangerous terrorist in our country because the suspect said he was just passing through. Spending money on a ticket to Canada would just be waste of money and no self-respecting terrorist would do that.

Why would they send him to Syria.... Hmmmmm.... that's a tough one.

Perhaps it's because he was FROM Syria?