El-Masri CIA rendition case dismissal [US DC] News
El-Masri CIA rendition case dismissal [US DC]

Khaled el-Masri v. George Tenet, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge T.S. Ellis III, May 18, 2006 [dismissing a lawsuit brought by the ACLU against CIA Director George Tenet and other agency officials and employees on behalf of Khaled El-Masri, a German national who alleges he was kidnapped in Macedonia in 2003 in an instance of extraordinary rendition, held by the CIA in Afghanistan where he was subjected to inhumane conditions and coercive interrogation, and finally released in 2004 and dropped off in Albania without ever being charged]. Read the full text of the order [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.