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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 ...
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 ...
An Aero Contractors plane was used in the transport of Khalid El-Masri, a German citizen who was pulled from a bus on the Serbia-Macedonia border and held for three weeks. He was drugged and beaten before being flown to Afghanistan on a Boeing Business Jet operated by Aero Contractors. El-Masri was released after five months. [3]
Abu Zubair al-Masri (died 2008), Egyptian al-Qaeda operative; Khalid al-Masri, suspected al-Qaeda member; Khalid El-Masri (born 1963), German and Lebanese torture victim formerly detained by the United States after extraordinary rendition; Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim (died 2008), known as Abu Jihad al-Masri, propaganda chief for al-Qaeda
[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 ...
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.
An individual named Khalid al Masri (or Khalid al-Masri) approached bin al-Shibh and Shehhi (because they were Arabs with beards, bin al-Shibh thinks) and struck up a conversation about jihad in Chechnya. When they later called Masri and expressed interest in going to Chechnya, he told them to contact Abu Musab in Duisburg, Germany.