Canadian Newsmaker of the Year - Maher Arar

[RBHam]

Time Canada (December 27 2004) Canadian Newsmaker of the Year –

Seeking the Truth

http://www.timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=006

--How one man's quest for justice is quietly reshaping a nation's values and law --Who is Maher Arar? In 2002, U.S. officials detained the Canadian software engineer at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. They alleged that he was linked to al-Qaeda and secretly deported him to Syria, where he says he was tortured. When Arar was freed more than a year later and the public got a glimpse of him, he seemed to be a likable, hard-working family man... Arar has launched two gutsy lawsuits in 2004 targeting some of the most powerful people on the continent, including U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and R.C.M.P. Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli.

[RBHam]

1. Quite the contrast to Time's choice of Bush....

just thought I'd point that out...

[leesa]

2. All right Canada! THAT is beautiful! Thank you.

[RBHam]

3. be aware

after patriot act II - this could happen to you

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Thanks for posting this, RB

"If Arar is a terrorist, he is unlike any other. In contrast with other suspects dispatched to harsh justice, Arar didn't vanish into oblivion in his Middle East cell. Nor, after his release, did he recoil from public view," writes Time's Canadian Bureau Chief Steven Frank.

"Instead Arar, who has a modest home in Ottawa, has stepped into the spotlight, emerging as a vocal proponent of human rights in Canada, a symbol of how fear and injustice have permeated life in the West since 9/11."

The magazine says it was Arar's persistence that earned an inquiry into his deportation, and the distinction of Canadian Newsmaker of the Year.

And, Frank writes, Arar also took the gutsy step of launching a pair of lawsuits targeting some of the most powerful people in North America -- from former prime minister Jean Chretien to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1103475914757_1?hub=Canada

[RBHam]

5. must bump

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[RBHam]

6. must bump

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[RBHam]

7. el bumparooni...

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[HEyHEY]

8. I did all that Streaking for NOTHING

DAMN!