Where Is The Apology This Tortured (Truly) Man Seeks?

[Ed. Note: WaPo also has a piece about brave lawyers for "terrorist" detainees who are trying to fight against Bush's expanded torture/tribunal plan. Brave they are because the Bushies have made these lawyers' lives almost as hellish as the detainees'.]

From WaPo on the plight of Maher Arar, the Canadian the U.S. took to Syria to torture with no cause:

Maher Arar has received many apologies lately, but not the one he wants most.

The Canadian computer consultant, detained on suspicion of terrorism in 2002 and sent to Syria where he was tortured and jailed for 10 months, was cleared by a Canadian commission investigating his case last week. The report of Justice Dennis O'Connor found that flawed intelligence about Arar, passed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to U.S. officials, likely contributed to the 2002 decision to deport the Muslim Canadian citizen.

"There is no evidence to indicate that Mr. Arar has committed any offence or that his activities constitute a threat to the security of Canada," O'Connor concluded in his exhaustive report (PDF).

Last week, Giuliano Zaccardelli, commissioner of the Mounted Police, offered his apologies to Arar and his family during a parliamentary hearing. His mea culpa followed a unanimous apology from the Canadian House of Commons.

But Arar says he deserves an apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

"I understand he needs time to examine other issues," Arar said on Canadian television. "But given that my reputation has been tarnished, I've suffered tremendously, my family has suffered tremendously over the last couple of years, I expected him to apologize without delay."
Harper declined to issue an apology last week, noting that Arar's ordeal took place under the previous government, headed by the Liberal party.

"I think it's clear that ... Mr. Arar has been done a tremendous injustice," said Harper, adding that his government intends to "act swiftly" in implementing the recommendations of O'Connor's report.