Need info re: German citizen tortured

[goddess40]

I want to answer a LTE that a woman wrote saying she doesn't mind the US spying on her as she has nothing to hide. The government is compiling a huge bank of information and when there is this much info mistakes can be made. I want to use the story about the German citizen who was pulled off a plane and sent for a year to another country where he was held and torured. He was released and given no info as to why this happened. I think his name was similar to someone else who's name was on a list of possible terrorists. Thanks.

[Voice1]

1. There's this report from the Independent:

Germans investigate CIA kidnap of innocent citizen
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article346948.ece

Munich state prosecutors have launched an investigation to determine whe-ther Germany secretly helped the CIA in the abduction of one of its citizens who was held and tortured in a US "renditions" jail in Afghanistan after being mistaken for a terrorist suspect.

The investigation centres on 42-year-old Khaled al-Masri, a German of Leba-nese descent who was kidnapped in Macedonia by the CIA and flown to an American-run prison in Kabul where he was detained for five months and repeatedly beaten in early 2004.

The German government, which strongly opposed the US invasion of Iraq, has denied complicity in the kidnapping. The affair caused outrage in Germany last year and prompted Chancellor Angela Merkel to demand an explanation from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when she visited Berlin in December.

But Munich state prosecutors confirmed they were investigating Mr Masri's allegation that a German agent interrogated him at the US prison in Kabul. "The investigation is continuing and we are following up all leads," Martin Hoffmann, a prosecutors' spokesman, said yesterday.

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[pk_du]

2. Dont forget the Canadian sent to Syria by CIA too

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63365-2003Nov19?language=printer