Germany's new foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier Saturday denied allegations that German officials may have aided the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the December 2003 abduction of German citizen Khaled El-Masri , who...
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CIA rendition plaintiff maybe targeted on German information
Khaled el-Masri , a German man at the heart of an ACLU lawsuit against the CIA alleging wrongful imprisonment , may have been targeted as a result of information Germany shared with the US, according to a...
Khaled el-Masri v. George J. Tenet et al., US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, December 6, 2005 [complaint filed by the ACLU against former CIA Director George Tenet and other CIA officials on behalf of Khaled el-Masri,...
Bush denies US rendition for torture but Rice acknowledges 'mistakes'
In response to growing scrutiny of his Administration's interrogation practices, President Bush Tuesday insisted that the United States does not secretly transfer terrorism suspects to foreign governments that engage in torture. The Bush Administration has been...
CIA sued over extraordinary rendition practices, wrongful imprisonment
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against former CIA Director George Tenet and other CIA officials Tuesday on behalf of Khaled el-Masri , a German man who claims he...
German citizen wrongly held in Kabul until Rice release order
US government officials disclosed Friday that a German citizen originally detained as a terror suspect was released in May of 2004, on direct orders from then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice after he had spent five months in...