Germany drops CIA kidnap investigation
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German prosecutors have dropped an investigation into the alleged involvement of CIA agents in an Egyptian Muslim cleric's purported kidnapping from Italy, saying Friday that they saw no prospect of achieving results.
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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 ...Comment
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The Christian Science Monitor - Reaction in Germany was hardly neutral when a prosecutor in Munich indicted 13 CIA officials last week for kidnapping a German of Lebanese descent and interrogating him in Afghanistan before apparently realizing they had the wrong man. Germans solidly backed the prosecutor.
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Germany will not seek extradition of suspected CIA agents in an alleged kidnapping case, officials say.
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Swiss authorities have frozen an investigation into CIA operatives suspected of illegally transporting an abducted Egyptian Muslim preacher through Swiss airspace, an official said Friday.
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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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SAN FRANCISCO - The military on Wednesday dropped an espionage charge against a Muslim interpreter accused of spying at the camp for terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.    The development marks the third Guantanamo spy case to fall apart this year, despite vows by Attorney General John Ashcroft and military officials to prosecute the men for jeopardizing the nation's security...
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ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi dismissed the government's top intelligence chief, a spymaster under investigation for his role in the alleged CIA abduction of a radical Egyptian cleric from Milan three years ago.
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A German national was kidnapped in western Afghanistan and it was not immediately known if the Taliban were responsible, officials said on Monday.
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The state prosecutors office in Berlin  has dropped an investigation into a complaint filed by a  44-year-old woman who claims Paul McCartney is her father and  that the former Beatle manipulated a paternity test in 1984.
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HAMBURG -- The decision by Munich prosecutors to press charges against CIA counterterrorism operatives for kidnapping a German citizen, Khaled el-Masri, won widespread applause last week from German politicians and the public. "The great ally is not allowed to simply send its thugs out into Europe's...
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The government dropped espionage charges yesterday against a Syrian-born translator at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, the third time in recent months that investigators have withdrawn security
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Berlin's local government on Monday banned a planned Islamic conference in the German capital that security officials feared would be a forum to preach support for terrorism.
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Germany has given up efforts to extradite 13 suspected CIA agents from the United States in connection with the kidnapping a German citizen in 2003, the Justice Ministry said on Sunday.
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Officials dropped charges Monday against the senior investigator whose corruption probe led to the suspension of South Africa's national police chief and escalated tensions between prosecutors and police.
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German police were shadowing Khaled   el-Masri and exchanging information on him with U.S.   authorities before he was seized by the CIA and taken to   Afghanistan, a German federal policeman said on Thursday.
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Suspect computers off limits German police have been prohibited from using hacking tactics to obtain intelligence from suspects' computers.â¦