[there is something hidden in this story, that I missed, the photo is of a mid-eastern man, yet, they insist he is a german.....]
‘CIA victim’ held after shop fire
A Lebanese-born German, who accuses the CIA of having kidnapped and tortured him, has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a shop in Bavaria.
German police arrested Khaled al-Masri near the shop in Neu-Ulm on Thursday. He was sent to a psychiatric clinic and the fire was quickly extinguished.
His lawyer said his client had lacked proper psychological counselling.
Mr Masri says he was kidnapped in Macedonia in 2003, flown to a secret jail in Afghanistan and tortured there.
He says he was detained for five months before being released in Albania after the Americans realised they had got the wrong man.
Munich prosecutors have ordered the arrest of 13 suspected CIA agents in connection with the alleged “extraordinary rendition” case.
Mr Masri says his case is an example of the US practice of flying foreign terror suspects to third countries without judicial process for interrogation or detention.
He told the BBC in February: “I’m suffering from stress - this experience has left me traumatised.”
His German lawyer, Manfred Gnjidic, said Mr Masri had acted out of desperation after arguing with staff at the shop in Neu-Ulm.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/6669341.stm
Published: 2007/05/18 11:57:11 GMT
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I believe this is the chap they initially - similarity of names - believed to have taken over as top dog of Al Qaeda in Iraq after the death of Zarghawi. Strange man always in the shadow of troubles and in my opinion not as innocently as he claims.