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U.S. counter-terrorism hands over an innocent man to be tortured by Syrian officers

by nk | October 22, 2007 at 11:53 pm

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Thursday, our lawmakers offered an apology to a Canadian citizen deported by U.S. counter-terrorism officials to Syria where he was imprisoned and tortured. They called on Bush to apologize to Maher Arar, a Syrian-born software engineer banned from entering the U.S. despite having been cleared of links to terrorism by the Canadian government.
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The White House said it had no plans of issuing an apology to Arar.

Update: see http://www.maherarar.ca/mahers%20story.php for more of this story. It is clear from there that Syrian officials had tortured him, so I have updated my story title stating this.

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at 10:25 on October 23rd, 2007

nk, I think your story has potential but needs some improvement. I've got a few suggestions, and if you give them a try, I'd be happy to remove this flag.

I wasnt sure what was newsworthy in this story. News should always be about posting current stuff - new things you've discovered.

Please review What Makes News News. It can really help ify ou follow the old "W5" news formula -- making sure you have answered the questions: Who? What? Where? When? And Why? (You might want to check out our J-Tips for more help.)

I think your title is misleading, it implies that one of our intelligence organizations tortured someone while your story says otherwise.

at 11:32 on October 23rd, 2007

"deported by U.S. counter-terrorism officials to Syria where he was imprisoned and tortured." I believed that the guy was hold in one of those mysterious CIA prisons. I admit it's possible that the US officials handed him over to Syrian forces.

BigT

at 11:47 on October 23rd, 2007

The location of those "mysterious" CIA prisons are in friendly nations mostly located in Eastern Europe. It is not likely Syria would cooperate with our ownership of a secret prison within their borders.