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June 16, 2009

CIA Officer in El-Masri Rendition Promoted Twice
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The New Yorker magazine has also revealed that the CIA has twice
promoted an officer responsible for the rendition and detention of an
innocent German citizen named Khaled El-Masri. CIA agents kidnapped
El-Masri in Macedonia and flew him to Afghanistan, where he was held in
a dungeon and tortured. He was jailed for 149 days without charge. The
CIA officer refused to release El-Masri even after it was clear that he
was not a terror suspect. The officer was never reprimanded.



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