Wow, even I can’t get this.

Wow, I try to avoid anything related to current political events, its too popular to be outraged, I try to avoid that knee jerk reaction bullshit. But this is something I dug up today, that even made cynical me sick.
Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was deported to Syria by American authorities statement
Statement to the media by Maher Arar, Nov. 4, 2003.
I am here today to tell the people of Canada what has happened to me.
There have been many allegations made about me in the media, all of them by people who refuse to be named or come forward. So before I tell you who I am and what happened to me, I will tell you who I am not.
I am not a terrorist. I am not a member of al-Qaida and I do not know any one who belongs to this group. All I know about al-Qaida is what I have seen in the media.