Agence France-Presse:
BERLIN (AFP) - A German court ordered the arrest of 13 people behind the alleged CIA-backed kidnapping of a German citizen, believed to be one of the most notorious US "renditions" of a terror suspect, prosecutors said.
The prosecutor's office in Munich, southern Germany, said the city's administrative court had issued the arrest warrants against individuals thought to be CIA agents on suspicion of abduction and grievous bodily harm.
Authorities are probing allegations by Khaled el-Masri, a Lebanese-born German, that he was abducted by US agents in the Macedonian capital Skopje on New Year's Eve 2003. He says he was flown to a prison in Afghanistan for interrogation before being released five months later in Albania.
Masri, a 43-year-old unemployed car salesman and father of six, has said he was drugged and tortured while imprisoned.
Masri, innocent of any crime, was confused with a terrorist suspect with a similar name. So, not only are we kidnapping and torturing people, but we're doing it with pretty much the same level of bullshit intelligence we used to justify invading Iraq.
Somehow, I don't feel any safer.
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