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At the end of 2003, El-Masri travelled from his home in Ulm to go on a short vacation in Skopje.He was detained by Macedonian border officials on 31 December 2003, because his name was identical (except for variations in Roman transliteration) to that of Khalid al-Masri, who was being sought as an alleged mentor to the al-Qaeda Hamburg cell, and because of suspicion that El-Masri's German ...
In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court deferred to state secrets privilege when they refused to hear the case of Khalid el-Masri, who was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA under the Bush administration on December 21, 2003. The ACLU said that torture included methods of "forced anal penetration". [59] [60]
[7] [8]: 282–3 [14] El-Masri's name was a different transliteration of Khalid al-Masri, the name of a person who had supposedly met Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Marwan al-Shehhi on a train in Germany. [ 7 ] [ 22 ] Even after El-Masri's passport was checked and his identity as a different person was confirmed in March, Bikowsky still wanted him held ...
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Gnjidic helped El-Masri launch a lawsuit against George Tenet and other Americans he alleges were involved in his rendition. On December 8, 2005, following a meeting with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Dr Rice had privately acknowledged that El-Masri had been captured and ...
Mexican officials are demanding answers from investigators in the case of a politician whose killing appears tied to the capture of Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada. Kidnapping, capture, cover-up?
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Khalid El-Masri is the most well-known person who is believed to have been subjected to the process of "extraordinary rendition", as a result of mistaken identity. Laid Saidi , an Algerian detained and tortured along with El-Masri, was apprehended apparently because of a taped telephone conversation in which the word tirat , meaning "tires" in ...