Al-Masri has said he was abducted in December 2003 at the
Serbian-Macedonia border and flown by the CIA to a detention center in
Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was abused.
He has said he was released in Albania in May 2004 after the CIA
discovered they had the wrong person.
................................................................................
Al-Masri has asked a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., to
reinstate a lawsuit he filed against the CIA.
A judge dismissed the lawsuit in May, ruling that a trial could harm
national security by revealing details about CIA activities.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other U.S. officials have
declined to address the case.
However, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the United States
has acknowledged making a mistake with him.
From The Associated Press, 1/31/07:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-germany-cia-kidnapping,0,505280.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Warrants Issued in Germany Kidnapping
By DAVID RISING
Associated Press Writer
BERLIN --
Arrest warrants were issued for 13 people in connection with the
alleged CIA-orchestrated kidnapping of a German citizen in the
agency's extraordinary rendition program, a Munich prosecutor said
Wednesday.
Prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld told The Associated Press that
the warrants were issued in the "last few days" against the "13
alleged kidnappers" on suspicion of false imprisonment and serious
bodily harm in connection with the kidnapping of Khaled al-Masri, a
German citizen of Lebanese descent.
None of the suspects were identified.
However, Schmidt-Sommerfeldt said in a later statement that "the
personal details contained in the arrest warrants are, according to
our current knowledge, aliases of CIA agents."
________________________________________________
All in good fun, eh?
Harry
.
|
