A Canadian citizen who was detained by U.S. officials last year during a stopover in a New York airport, said he was repeatedly tortured after the U.S. secretly deported him to Syria. In Syria, Arar said he was repeatedly beaten and tortured and kept in a cell three feet wide. During a press conference yesterday he said, “I was willing to confess to anything to stop the torture.” He added, “I am not a terrorist. I am not a member of al Qaeda. I have never been to Afghanistan.” The U.S. says Arar’s name appeared on lists of suspected terrorists. But officials have never said why Arar was sent to Syria instead of Canada where is a citizen and he has lived for the past 15 years.