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Extraordinary Rendition (by Andrew Becraft)

For those who would like to know what Extraordinary Renditions are, try to check the movie with Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep. 

Maybe by then you will agree with me that the US government should put a stop to these violations of human rights.

Here are excerpts from the New York Times on one of the cases on Extraordinary Rendition committed during the Bush Administration:

In the ignoble history of President George W. Bush’s policies of torture and extraordinary rendition, few cases were as egregious as that of Mr. Arar, a software engineer. He was picked up at Kennedy International Airport by officials acting on incorrect information from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He was sent to Syria, to which the United States had assigned some of its violent interrogation, and was held for almost a year until everyone agreed he was not a terrorist and he was released.

The Bush White House never expressed regret about this horrific case. There was only then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s bland acknowledgement to a House committee in 2007 that it was not “handled as it should have been.”

In Canada, the government conducted an investigation and found that Mr. Arar had been tortured because of its false information. The commissioner of the police resigned. Canada cleared Mr. Arar of all terror connections, formally apologized and paid him nearly $9.8 million. Mr. Arar had hoped to get a similar apology and damages from the United States government but was rebuffed by the court system.

How can terror end when in the process of fighting it, human rights are violated? The violations committed in the name of stamping out extremism may very well be the seeds of a new wave of terrorism.