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I Am Not a State Secret (CIA Kidnapping Victim from Germany)
LA Times ^
| March 3, 2007
| Khaled El-Masri
Posted on 03/05/2007 9:18:10 AM PST by kenn5
I am not a state secret Having just lost in court, a CIA kidnap victim asks why the U.S. won't admit its error. By Khaled El-Masri, KHALED EL-MASRI, a German citizen born in Lebanon, was a car salesman before he was detained in December 2003. March 3, 2007
ON NEW YEAR'S EVE in 2003, I was seized at the border of Serbia and Macedonia by Macedonian police who mistakenly believed that I was traveling on a false German passport. I was detained incommunicado for more than three weeks. Then I was handed over to the American Central Intelligence Agency and was stripped, severely beaten, shackled, dressed in a diaper, injected with drugs, chained to the floor of a plane and flown to Afghanistan, where I was imprisoned in a foul dungeon for more than four months.
Long after the American government realized that I was an entirely innocent man, I was blindfolded, put back on a plane, flown to Europe and left on a hilltop in Albania without any explanation or apology for the nightmare that I had endured.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hoax
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It is ashame that the US government does not even apologize for this kidnapping.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:18:14 AM PST
by
kenn5
To: kenn5
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:20:20 AM PST
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: kenn5
What proof, other than this man's word, do we have that it was American and the CIA who did this?
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:20:25 AM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: kenn5
Uh, who cares? So a Muslim was inconvenienced for a while.
Every Muslim on the planet should be viewed as a potential terrorist until proved otherwise, IMO.
Sept. 11 will do that. Oh, well.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:21:37 AM PST
by
Gurn
(Islam is a cancer.)
To: kenn5
Then I was handed over to the American Central Intelligence Agency and was stripped, severely beaten, shackled, dressed in a diaper, injected with drugs, chained to the floor of a plane and flown to Afghanistan, where I was imprisoned in a foul dungeon for more than four months.At least he didn't have to wear women's underpants on his head.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:22:04 AM PST
by
CholeraJoe
("The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord shall be born as the seventh month dies.")
To: Gurn
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:23:37 AM PST
by
353FMG
(I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
To: kenn5
In December 2005, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, I sued former CIA Director George Tenet along with other CIA agents and contractors for their roles in my kidnapping, mistreatment and arbitrary detention. Above all, what I want from the lawsuit is a public acknowledgment from the U.S. government that I was innocent, a mistaken victim of its rendition program, and an apology for what I was forced to endure. To my amazement and dismay, last May, a federal district court judge agreed with the government and threw out my case. And then Friday, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:23:48 AM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: kenn5
"...shackled, dressed in a diaper, injected with drugs, chained to the floor of a plane and flown to Afghanistan, where I was imprisoned in a foul dungeon for more than four months."
Sounds like a day in the life of a typical DUmmie.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:24:19 AM PST
by
Buck W.
(If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
To: kenn5
Yes, I am sure they wore their CIA shirts that told this guy who they worked for( baby food factory moment). Give me a break. I am not sure this happened but if it did he would not have know it was the CIA, trust me.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:24:45 AM PST
by
crosslink
(Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
To: kenn5
This sounds more like a alien abduction.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:24:56 AM PST
by
ThomasThomas
(I just can't say Democrat with out the ick)
To: ThomasThomas
You'd think that if this really happened, he wouldn't go challenging the CIA again. If I was treated that way, I sure as heck wouldn't go blabbering about it, for fear they would just abduct me again.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:33:44 AM PST
by
tearlenb
To: kenn5
It seems like the LA Slimes picked up a piece written by "The Onion".
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:36:06 AM PST
by
JerseyDvl
(STOP - Hildabeast, Shrillary, Hitlery, Billary, Her Thighness, Sen. Cankles, Dukakis-in-Drag)
To: Buck W.
"...shackled, dressed in a diaper, injected with drugs, chained to the floor of a plane and flown to Afghanistan, where I was imprisoned in a foul dungeon for more than four months."
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I wish I did that to my college roommate.
To: ThomasThomas
"This sounds more like a alien abduction."
Yes, and John Murtha and Nancy P. are going to call for Hearings to find out Why the CIA is using the Aliens for these abductions and demand they stop.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:37:50 AM PST
by
crosslink
(Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
To: kenn5
He's a muslim. That means that he is a liar.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:38:46 AM PST
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: kenn5
Maybe this guy needs to be abducted again. Only this time send him to Israel. Being German and Muslim, I'm sure they would love to talk to him.
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posted on
03/05/2007 9:39:27 AM PST
by
skimask
(People who care what you do don't matter.......People who matter don't care what you do.)
To: kenn5
Sorry, you are going to have to visualize the "Aw Jeez, Not This S@#$ Again" guy.
This story has been done at least one hundred times. Give it a rest, for God Sake! Also, it is a total lie, every time. He left the wife and infant babies to go find himself on the Iranian border. Please...Kaleed is a professional victim.
If you read through all this BS, you will find that this guy had been unemployed for ten yrs. Well, now he has a full-time job spreading this lie.
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posted on
03/05/2007 10:00:38 AM PST
by
ishabibble
(ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
To: ishabibble
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posted on
03/05/2007 10:02:34 AM PST
by
kenn5
To: kenn5
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posted on
03/05/2007 10:12:07 AM PST
by
VaBthang4
("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
To: Jeff Head
2005-11-21
Dude is a Lib troll.
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posted on
03/05/2007 10:12:49 AM PST
by
VaBthang4
("He Who Watches Over Israel Will Neither Slumber Nor Sleep")
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