German Citizen Detained By U.S. Seeks Apology from CIA

I'll give a brief summary: Khaled Al-Masri is a German citizen, disappeared for 5 months. His wife thought he was dead, moved to a new town with the kids, etc. He comes back, says he was abducted by the CIA and taken to Afghanistan and abused and interrogated. No one really believed him, until the new German Prime Minister says that Condoleeza Rice told her his abduction was a mistake.

He claims he was kept in solitary confinement, given filthy water to drink, and beaten during his five month stay in Afghanistan. After he went on a hunger strike, and had to be force-fed, he was eventually released.

I'm kind of surprised this isn't a bigger story in the States. Doing a Google News Search, 90% of the results are international:

http://news.google.com/news?sourcei...f-8&tab=wn&q=khaled+al-masri&btnG=Search+News

Any Germans here? I wonder if it's a huge story over there. I didn't see it anywhere on any of the main pages of CNN. Yahoo Popular news was where I saw it:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051209...6EDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

 

My guess is it's not by mistake that it isn't all over the news.

 

Hahahahhahahaha, what a load of crap! This would be all over the leftie headlines and alphabet news.

 

I'm not German, but living close by (Netherlands): it is frontpage news over here! Media opinions here about CIA and secret CIA jails is very negative, so every story like this will be picked up and made news.

He says it's true - german government was notified by the USA about this situation , so the chance of it being true is >50% I'd say.


Very strange no US news station has picked up on this ..

 

Well they are busy getting that ghastly patriot act renewed, so till that passes I am sure they would not want any news that may have people think that governments ever make mistakes or misuse authority and power.