fellow name of Maher Arar

Just read, via Quiggin, the story of Maher Arar, a Canadian of middle eastern origin treated like a lump of shite by the US administration in 2002 and ready to claim restitution. A matter of kidnapping and rendition, a term for deportation for interrogation overseas. He was grabbed while changing planes in NY and flown to Syria. Bashings, incarceration in a grave, the usual stuff, and the Yanks doing everything they can to suppress the issue for security excuses. But, very good luck to him, Arar’s a smart and determined man, and that’s an absolute prerequisite for beating such a corrupt system, in which the treatment of suspected terrorists mirrors the brutal treatment of so many of the disadvantaged and abused who fall into the hands of the law, and who suffer and go down in proportion to their cluelessness and inability to fight that system. I don’t expect he’ll get the justice he deserves, but fuck I hope he manages to kick some ass, and for that he’ll need all the help he can get.