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Khaled El-Masri (also Khalid El-Masri [1] and Khaled Masri, [2] Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [ˈxaːlɪd elˈmɑsˤɾi,-ˈmɑsˤɾe], Arabic: خالد المصري) (born 29 June 1963) is a German and Lebanese citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police in 2003, and handed over to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
A team of American CIA officials were dispatched to the Republic of Macedonia, where they kidnapped El-Masri after he was released by the Macedonian officers, but without regard to his legal rights under Macedonian law. [26] It took over two months for the CIA official who ordered his arrest to assess whether El-Masri's passport was legitimate ...
This was apparently due to a misunderstanding that arose concerning the similarity of the spelling of El-Masri's name with the spelling of suspected terrorist Khalid al-Masri. Germany had issued warrants for 13 people suspected to be involved with the abduction but dropped them in September 2007.
Khalid El-Masri: German citizen wrongfully labelled terror-suspect, became a high-value detainee. Abducted at behest of CIA by Macedonian police, based on "hunch" of CIA officer. Raped in Skopje, rendered to Afghanistan, held in CIA Salt Pit; tortured by CIA. Released (flown to Albania, "dumped in a forest, blindfolded") after CIA realized ...
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp (Spanish: Centro de detención de Guantánamo) is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Guantánamo, GTMO, and "Gitmo" (/ˈɡɪtmoʊ/), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
One example is Khalid El-Masri, a German citizen abducted by the CIA in Macedonia in January 2004. He was taken to a CIA black site in Afghanistan , known as the Salt Pit , for questioning under ' enhanced interrogation techniques ' (torture) before he was determined to be innocent in March and eventually released in May 2004 after some ...
Meloni revealed the investigation over allegedly aiding and abetting Ossama Anjiem, also known as Ossama al-Masri, in a video posted on social media. She said her justice and interior ministers ...
A cable, directed to the then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, revealed the U.S. government's obstruction of justice in the case of Khalid El-Masri, a German citizen who was kidnapped by the CIA, and then flown to Iraq and Afghanistan, where he was allegedly tortured and imprisoned, and then dumped in Albania two weeks after it was revealed ...