Germany Gives Up on Extradition of CIA Operatives
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BERLIN, Sept. 23 -- German authorities confirmed Sunday that they have dropped efforts to seek the extradition of 13 CIA operatives charged in the kidnapping of a German citizen in the Balkans four years ago.
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FRANKFURT - US officials have told Germany that they will not extradite 13 purported CIA agents in the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen. The Bush administration told Berlin it would not hand over the 13, and the Justice Ministry decided not to formally request their arrest, a ministry spokeswoman said yesterday. The group is accused of wrongfully imprisoning and ...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has  sought to bolster ties with the United States since she took  office, rebuked Washington on Saturday for sanctioning secret  CIA prisons used to interrogate terror suspects.
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U.S. authorities have informed Germany that they will not extradite 13 suspected CIA agents sought in the alleged kidnapping of a German citizen, an official said Saturday.Munich prosecutors issued warrants for the arrest of the 13 at the end of January, accusing the unidentified suspects of wrongfully imprisoning Khaled el-Masri and causing him serious bodily harm.A Justice Ministry spokeswoman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, confirmed a report in the weekly Der Spiegel that the U.S. administration told Berlin it would not hand over the group. Read more
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The former head of Germany's foreign intelligence service on Thursday justified a decision to bar a German resident held in Guantanamo Bay from returning to Germany, saying the man was still considered a security risk.
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STRASBOURG, France  - European governments have built a "wall of silence" in response to charges they were complicit in a CIA program that included holding terrorist suspects in secret jails, a Swiss investigator said on Wednesday.
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Prosecutors in Munich, Germany, are  requesting the extradition from the United States of 13  suspected CIA agents they say took part in the 2003 kidnapping  of a German citizen.
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Prosecutors in Munich, Germany, are requesting the extradition from the United States of 13 suspected CIA agents they say took part in the 2003 kidnapping of a German citizen.
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BERLIN -- German investigators have recommended that prosecutors issue arrest warrants against 13 US intelligence operatives in connection with the kidnapping, beating, and secret detention of a German citizen suspected of having links to terrorist networks.
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German prosecutors said Wednesday that they have issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA agents who allegedly abducted a German citizen in an apparent anti-terrorist operation gone wrong, in the latest European legal challenge to U.S. treatment of terror suspects.
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BERLIN -- German prosecutors yesterday said arrest warrants have been issued for 13 CIA operatives accused of the abduction of Khaled al-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese heritage who was kidnapped in the Balkans in early 2004, flown to a secret prison in Afghanistan, and grilled for months before his captors decided he had no terrorist ties and released him.
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Two men who are believed to be members of al-Qaida are under arrest in Germany. Federal prosecutors say the two were arrested by German authorities Sunday.
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Britain did not allow CIA planes to use its airports to secretly transfer terrorism suspects to third countries or US-run jails, chief police officers said late Friday at the end of an 18-month probe.
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Germany is to stop offering unlimited immigration to Jews from Russia and eastern Europe from Jan.
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A hearing of a German parliamentary inquiry probing the case of a former Guantanamo inmate was canceled because Berlin refused to release key documents.Comment
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The Italian government is signaling it will not press Washington for the extradition of 26 Americans &#151; mostly CIA agents &#151; who were indicted in the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan, according to remarks published Monday.
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The CIA has agreed to release more information about Nazi war criminals it hired during the Cold War, ending a standoff between the agency and the group seeking the documents, Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) said Sunday.