Defense Minister Bill Graham said he was frustrated by the assertions of United States officials , including the former secretary of state , Colin L. Powell , that someone in Canada had '' given them the go-ahead '' to deport Maher Arar , the Syrian-born Canadian detained in New York in 2002 and sent to Syria for 10 months , where , he said , he was tortured .
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