This is what they did to me
Arrested by U.S. during New York stop-over, Canadian citizen deported to Syria, held for year without charge
by Maher Arar

“They put a bag over my head and flew me to Syria for torture and interrogation. Then a man from the INS came in and told me they wanted me to volunteer to go to Syria. I said no way. I said I wanted to go home to Canada ..." On this Day of Thanksgiving, let us be thankful for the freedoms we possess... but let us also not take these freedoms for granted... “Eternal vigilance,” Wendell Phillips once said, “is the price of liberty.”

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