US authorities, apparently acting on information from the RCMP, suspected Arar of being a member of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, that carried out the 9/11 attacks on the US the previous year.Īrar was held all but incommunicado for two weeks while being subject to repeated interrogations about his ties to Almalki and terrorism. 2002, when American agents detained him during a stopover at JFK international airport in New York. In December 1997, the family moved to Ottawa.Īrar became a “person of interest” to Canadian authorities by socializing with Abdullah Almalki, another Ottawa resident and someone authorities suspected had terrorist ties.Īrar was returning from a vacation in Tunis, traveling to Montréal via Zurich on 26 Sept. He married Monia Mazigh in 1994 in Montréal and the couple had two children. He became a Canadian citizen in 1991 and went on to become a telecommunications software engineer. He came to Canada with his parents in 1987 without doing Syrian military service.
Arar, a Sunni Muslim, was born in Syria on 15 September 1970.
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