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Monday, December 01, 2003
I'm living in my own private Manzanar
If you haven't read enough by our buddy Adam Yoshida (see below), check this out from Free Republic:
I’m sick to death of watching everyone shed tears over the supposed injustice done on Maher Arar, the Syrian-Canadian dual citizen who was deported to Syria by the United States, held there for a year, and tortured. I grant you that it is possible that Mr. Arar may be a victim of an injustice. But I don’t really believe that to be the case. In all the weeping over Arar’s ordeal, we have forgotten the main question: was he a member or supporter of al-Qaeda?
This question has never been answered. All we have is Arar’s denial which, quite frankly, I do not believe. Arar fits the profile of a terrorist. He’s young, Moslem, Western-educated, and from an engineering background. A known member of al-Qaeda witnessed Arar’s signature on the lease of his Ottawa apartment.
How many Canadian Moslems travel through the United States each year? Ten thousand? Fifty thousand? One hundred thousand? Whatever the number is, it is large. How many of these Moslems have been sent to the Middle East because of their suspected links to terror? One: Maher Arar. This man wasn’t captured as a result of a random whim, if the United States (and seemingly the Canadian government as well) went through this much trouble, they must have had a good reason to do so.
I’m also suspicious of the circumstances of which Arar was nabbed. He was captured on his way back from a family vacation to Tunisia, a known hot-bed of al-Qaeda activity. He had left his family behind in Tunisia, travelling back alone. It was some time before his wife and children came back to Canada. I am left to wonder: just what was he coming back here for, and was his family even supposed to come back?
The United States isn’t operating blindly in this war. I’ve long-advocated that they need to detain and intern all of those suspected not only of being al-Qaeda members, but also those who are supporters or sympathetic to it or its aims.
You can read the whole story about Maher Arar here.
As for Yoshida, his story is much more simple. He's an idiot.
...and he has the Instapundit Seal of Approval.
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