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Skriven 2005-01-18 05:29:28 av RICHARD JOHNSON (1:10/345)
Ärende: AmeriKa?
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How low have Chimpy and his feckless band of neofascists brought America.  We
have become as bad as the NAZIs and the old KGB.
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US kidnapped German in 'terror' mishap

ISN SECURITY WATCH (17/01/05) ˙ The case of a German citizen who was allegedly
kidnapped by US operatives after being mistaken for a top al-Qaida operative
has caused headaches to officials on both sides of the Atlantic in recent days.
According to German media reports, 41-year-old Khaled al-Masri, a native
Lebanese with German citizenship, was abducted while traveling by coach from
Germany to Skopje, Macedonia on 31 December 2003. He was taken off the bus by
armed civilians on the Macedonian-Serbian border. Apparently because he is the
namesake of a wanted terrorist, al-Masri was held under armed guard in
Macedonia for 26 days and refused access to or contact with German authorities,
according to Der Spiegel weekly magazine. He was subsequently turned over to
men he believes were US intelligence officials, who flew him out to a prison
camp in Afghanistan. Other prisoners and his jailers told him that the
detention center was in Kabul, Afghanistan, he said, according to the Berlin
Tagesspiegel daily. There, he was held together with people from Somalia,
Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. He was beaten, held naked, and subjected to
constant interrogation about his alleged terror links. Al-Masri says he was
tortured and interrogated at the camp for five months before his captors
realized they had gotten the wrong man. According to the reports, he was
subsequently flown to Albania and deported from there to Frankfurt, Germany.
The Spiegel report said that US officials had admitted, off the record, that an
error had been made and had expressed regret at the case of mistaken identity.
But a spokesman for the ruling SPD party˙s parliamentary faction, Dieter
Wiefelsp˙tz, said the issue was being monitored with ˙great interest˙ in the
Bundestag. The Munich public prosecutor˙s office has opened an investigation of
the apparent state-sanctioned kidnapping and has sent the US Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) a letter requesting more information on the case, German
media reported. Al-Masri˙s attorney, Manfred Gnjidic, said his client was
considering suing for damages in the US.
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They are turning us into that which we hate and fought a war against, fascist,
overbearing war criminals and worst.



 
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