Deported, tortured, cleared

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No apology or amount of money can ever compensate Maher Arar, a Canadian computer engineer, for the misery he's suffered.

The married father of two was falsely accused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police of being an Islamic extremist with ties to al-Qaeda. Based on information from the RCMP, he was detained during a stopover at New York's JFK Airport in 2002 by U.S. officials, who then deported him to his native Syria where he was locked in a tiny rat-infested cell for 10 months, tortured, beaten and whipped with an electric cable. To win his release, he finally "confessed" to acts he never committed.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday took an unprecedented step to rectify this injustice, apologizing to Arar and endorsing the findings of a Canadian judge who last year said "categorically that there is no evidence" that Arar was a security threat. He will receive a $10.5 million legal settlement.

So ends the Canadian part of the story, but questions linger for the United States, which Harper chastised for refusing to answer basic questions about the case.

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