Germany orders arrest of 13 CIA agents in Al-Masri kidnapping case
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, Jan 31, IRNA
Germany-Crime-CIA
German prosecutors have issued arrest warrants for 13 CIA operatives accused of masterminding the kidnapping of a Lebanese-born German citizen in December 2003, media reports said Wednesday.
Munich prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld announced that the arrest warrants were issued over the past days.
Khaled al-Masri was abducted by CIA agents in the Macedonian capital Skopje on New Year's eve 2003 and flown to a jail in Afghanistan where he was interrogated, beaten and tortured during a five-month ordeal.
Al-Masri was freed in Albania in May 2004 after the CIA found out that they had abducted the wrong person.
The Al-Masri case has been a sore point in US-German ties and led to a parliamentary probe on allegations German intelligence agents were involved in the kidnapping affair.
German authorities have repeatedly criticized the refusal of the US government to cooperate in the Al-Masri scandal.
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