German Court Challenges C.I.A. Over Abduction
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An arrest warrant was issued for 13 people in a case of mistaken arrest that highlights the agencyâs policy of secret transfers of terrorism 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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U.S. court says it's a French matter; plaintiff organizations want ban on sale of Nazi memorabilia.
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A federal appeals court in Washington ruled yesterday that a U.S. citizen in U.S. military custody in Iraq has the right to challenge his detention in a federal court.
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An attorney for families of Sept. 11 victims asked a court Friday to seek testimony from an al-Qaida suspect in Syria, saying it could lead to a stiffer sentence for a man convicted in Germany of aiding the suicide hijackers.
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BERLIN Aug. 23, 2004 - A German court on Monday, citing insufficient evidence, acquitted an imprisoned aide of the terrorist Carlos the Jackal of involvement in a deadly series of bombings in France in the early 1980s.
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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 International Court of Justice is to decide whether to allow a complaint filed against Germany by the tiny principality of Liechtenstein.
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The European Union&#39;s head office took Germany to court Wednesday to challenge a German law that effectively protects Volkswagen AG, one of the country&#39;s biggest employers, from hostile takeovers.
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A German who says he was kidnapped three years ago, held by the CIA and tortured for months in Afghanistan personally sought an apology on Wednesday and an explanation for his arrest.
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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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An American who lost his mother in the first plane to hit the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks pressed an FBI investigator in a German court Tuesday for more details on the hijacking, wondering if her last minutes were "torture."
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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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Arrest warrants have been issued for 13 people in connection with the alleged CIA-orchestrated kidnapping of a German citizen, a Munich prosecutor said Wednesday.
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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.
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An Italian court ruled Friday that 35 people should stand trial in connection with a CIA "extraordinary rendition" program that involves the alleged kidnapping and transfer of terror suspects to third countries, where critics say they are tortured.
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A German court has blocked the extradition to Denmark of a former member of the Nazi SS wanted in the Scandinavian country for the assassination of a journalist in 1943, it said Monday.Comment