Munich, Germany: Arrest warrants issued against 13 CIA agents

El-Masri was born in Lebanon but acquired German citizenship in 1995. The father of four children had been arrested in Macedonia at the end of December 2003 under suspicion of terrorism and abducted by the US intelligence agents to Afghanistan. There he was interrogated and tortured for a period of four months. When it became clear that his arrest was an obvious mistake, el-Masri was flown in the dead of night to the Balkans and left in a forest close to the Albanian border.

A parliamentary committee of inquiry is also currently investigating el-Masri’s case in Berlin. The committee is attempting to establish the extent to which German authorities and government agencies were informed of, or were actually involved in, the arrest and detention of el-Masri.

Following Italy, Germany is now the second European country to issue warrants against CIA agents alleged to be involved in the kidnapping of alleged terror suspects.

In Milan, the public prosecutor’s office has issued warrants against 26 CIA agents, who in February 2003 abducted Muslim cleric Abu Omar in broad daylight and transported him to an Egyptian torture prison. In the last few days, judicial authorities in Milan announced that they had confiscated the house owned in Italy by CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady. A Milan court is currently deliberating whether the charges of kidnapping made by the public prosecutor’s office against the 26 CIA agents and 8 Italian secret service agents can be ratified.

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