I come back to your relationship with Mr. Ashcroft, from the United States. If you had known that Mr. Arar was innocent of any link with terrorist activity, you would have mentioned it to Mr. Ashcroft and you would have asked him: why did you send him to Syria? You would have asked him this to know if, precisely, they had their own reasons to send him to Syria.
On October 24th, 2006. See this statement in context.