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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 ...
An unrelated German citizen, Khalid El-Masri, spent almost five months in the covert CIA prison in Afghanistan called the Salt Pit in the early months of 2004, where he was interrogated and tortured. [4] Alfreda Frances Bikowsky ordered El-Masri to be extraordinarily rendered, even though she only had a hunch El-Masri was the same person as al ...
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 ...
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As the star witness in the Holly Bobo murder trial, Jason Autry spoke in a calm, deliberative manner as an attentive jury listened to him recreate the day the kidnapped Tennessee nursing student ...
Jul. 26—CHIPPEWA FALLS — The 23-year-old Tennessee man charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old girl in the Holcombe area last October appeared in Chippewa County Court on Wednesday to discuss ...
Abasi learns Khalid's late brother was an inmate at his prison. Fatima learns that Khalid belongs to a terrorist group, and discovers a notebook with pictures: Khalid and his brother brandishing AK-47s; a grief-stricken Khalid standing over his brother's corpse; her father; and a statement that Khalid will avenge his brother.
But, on June 1, 2006, the BND (German intelligence agency) declared that it had known of El-Masri's seizure 16 months before Germany was officially informed of his arrest. [ 3 ] In a 2007 report, Human Rights Watch related the claims of an alleged ghost detainee, Marwan Jabour , a Palestinian who was arrested in Lahore, Pakistan , in May 2004 ...