Arar drags Bush's policies into court

[Canadian Socialist]

Historic case challenges practice of rendition
Lawyers won't concede Canadian tortured in Syria

TIM HARPER
WASHINGTON BUREAU

NEW YORK—Canadian Maher Arar made history in a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday when his lawyers forced the Bush administration to defend its treatment of him when he was detained in the United States, then whisked off to face torture in Syria.

Lawyers for the New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights became the first to challenge Washington's policy of "extraordinary rendition" in a court of law.

Rendition, a practice used with some frequency by U.S. President George W. Bush in his war on terror, is the name attached to a policy by which terrorist suspects are sent to other countries for interrogation, and often face torture.
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Hopefully, SOMETHING good will come of this poor man's suffering.

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