Syria and the US are both responsible for his and his family's sufferings.

Maher Arar, a Syrian Canadian engineer came back to Canada today after spending over a year in a Syrian jail. There is serious allegations by the Amnesty International that he was tortured while in Syria. Upon arrival today, Arar was too tired to confirm or reject this during a short press conference in Montreal Airport.

Arar was first detained by U.S. authorities in September 2002 while he was changing planes in New York. He was travelling from Tunisia to Canada. He was alleged by the American officials to have links with Al-Qaeda and was deported from the US, not to Canada but to Syria where his one year ordeal began. Read more .

It is not surprising that during over one year in a Syrian jail, his wife and his two kids went through so much difficulty and perhaps this can have a permanent negative effect on his children. American officials have not commented on this issue recently. The latest was that they claimed Arara's name was in an Al-Qaeda list. That's it. If this was true and the US officials believed there was a link, why was he not detained in the US until making sure about his identity? Is it believable that the US considered somebody linked to Al-Qaeda and let him go out of its hands?

All of what happened to him and his family due to the uncertainty and separation, as well as the alleged torture issue, are resulted from the guilt of two entities, Syrian and American governments. Any moment of torture on him was in fact shared by both governments who are racing in human rights abuse.