A telecommunications engineer from Canada was detained at Kennedy Airport in 2002, flown to Jordan and expelled to Syria, where he said he was tortured.

The Canadian who was detained by U.S. officials and sent to Syria, where he claims he was tortured, was never technically inside the country, so his claims could not be heard in U.S. courts.

The Canadian who was detained by U.S. officials and sent to Syria, where he claims he was tortured, was never technically inside the country, so his claims could not be heard in U.S. courts.

The Justice Department?s is reviewing a 2002 decision by department officials to send a Canadian citizen to Syria, where he was tortured, American officials said Thursday.