Actually it's an extradition treaty. The US can extradite people to Canada and Canada can extradite people to the USA, but the USA cannot extradite a person in Canada to Syria.

Basically what it comes down to is that he should have been taken to Canada just as his airline tickets said. He was one of their citizens. Canada denied him entry, so he was extradited to Syria where he was also a citizen.

I don't agree with the judgement, he should have got at least $100 million, not $10 million IMO.

What the Canadians did was reprehensible. They denied one of their own citizens entry into their country and he ended up in the place he fled from in the first place. But what the Syrians did was even more fucked up.

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Point taken. What I meant is that the USA cannot extradite a person in Canada to a third nation.

The pointr is, he was not extradited from Canada, he was denied entry into Canada by the Canadians.

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Theres no evidence of that, he was taken from JFK to Syria, if the Canadian government denied him entry he would have be sitting in Pearson, or Trudeau airport, not in a Syrian Jail. Further, since he is a Canadian citizen he cannot be denied entry so he wouldn't be there for very long. Further if sent back to where he had just come from, Zurich, as the Canadian Authorities expected he would again, not be subject to harm. From the Arar Commission's report

So don't give me this crock that the US had to send him to syria and that the us had no idea that he was going to be tortured. The FBI knew damn well and thats why they sent him there. Its conspiracy to torture, its kidnapping, and its a felony offense. The FBI agents involved should go to jail.


There is a claim that CSIS said they didn't want his return, but quite frankly not only does CSIS not have the power to make that call there is no evidence of who said that. So we can take that as a load too...

No, I don't. I don't support a US invasion or interference either, as this would only help to damage America's reputation in the region further. My point was that Syria isn't an international threat to anyone, they just like beating their chest.

I'm not defending them. In fact, you are. It was the US, who delivered Arar to them, knowing very well that he would be tortured. You can play naive and claim that you had no idea and it's all like Disneyland over there, but extraction of information the hard way was the only purpose the US got their hands on him and shipped him off. Syria is responsible for the torture, the US is responsible for putting him in that situation in the first place. Does that make all of America bad? No, but it shows that even the US is capable of mistakes, despite what you seem to think,

And you blame Syria for your mistakes, right now. You handed the guy over, a mistake, and try to hide that it was a mistake. But apparently, no government institution/agency can ever make a mistake, huh?

And I ask again, is this someone the US should work with? If it's true that you wanna defend freedom and all, isn't that a bad choice?

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I should clarify this further, that was in regards to Syria, while Arar was still in US custody

http://www.ararcommission.ca/eng/AR_English.pdf

So basically hairball, you have no basis for your claims do you?