Wikileaks and the El-Masri case: Innocent CIA torture victim more than just a leaked cable

Khaled El-Masri is a German citizen, a father of six who the CIA kidnapped by mistake, then sent off to receive months of torture in Afghanistan.

When they realized he was innocent, he was flown to Albania and dumped on a back road without so much as an apology.

El-Masri's futile efforts at receiving justice in the U.S. are well-known, but cables recently leaked by Wikileaks reveal that the U.S. also warned German authorities not to allow a local investigation into his kidnapping.

The nearest he's gotten to justice is an arrest warrant for 13 CIA agents issued by prosecutors in Spain, which they entered on forged passports.

In this video, originally part of the Witness.org documentary OUTLAWED, El-Masri relates his experiences.

OUTLAWED website:
http://www.witness.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=541&...

Boing Boing post:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/01/wikileaks-and-the-el.html

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Wikileaks
• Cablegate
• ACLU
• Witness
• OUTLAWED
• rendition
• terror
• terrorism
• Khaled El Masri
• Khalid el-Masri
• human rights
• Bradley Manning
• Julian Assange
• Afghanistan
• Iraq
• war
• torture

[kimpeccable]

A government that destroys a man's life for no reason and then refuses to provide him with some kind of recompense for his humiliation, suffering, and loss of liberty is nothing short of monstrous. I am sickened and ashamed at the indefensibly bad behavior of my elected officials and the barbarous tactics of the CIA. I hope this man gets the justice he so rightfully deserves.

[atlantis1991]

When the state leading the war on terror becomes a source of terror, it might be time to reevaluate the war.

[Morgena1]

so sieht es aus wenn alle nur ihren Job machen ohne darueber nach zu denken

[kavourakos]

omg, the VOICE!! MY NERVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

[kavourakos]

omg, the VOICE!! MY NERVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

[463432]

Wikileaks has shown the way... we must all search for the truth... in every detail and reveal it... the community must grow & the truth resting under the piles of lies must be revealed to the masses.. so humans can wake up again and deliver what really they were made for..

[Sztiglitz]

I actually included his case in my research paper about how America changed after 9/11.

[newyorkcat]

Well, the thing about outsourcing, it's detachable. At what point is he in the hands of CIA? Men in black in Macedonia? Men in black speaking Lebanese in Afghanistan? The whole thing is quite murky. Deliberately so I'm sure. Interesting set up, but it's sort of like the international division of labor...

[commins100]

Rice is a BITCH