The US Stands Accused of Kidnapping

[aikido15]

The US Stands Accused of Kidnapping

By Georg Mascolo and Holger Stark

02/14/05 "Der Spiegel" - - - The case is extremely sensitive. A German citizen may have been kidnapped by American agents and illegally taken to Afghanistan. Now, German authorities are quietly investigating the case. But no one here wants it to interfere with US-German rapprochement.

That all-important piece of evidence is pitch black and about 20 centimeters long. It's a single strand of hair from the head of Khaled el-Masri, 41, and spent most of its life heavily oiled and slicked back. Now, the hair has become a global player; current German-American relations largely hinge on it.

El-Masri, namely, is part of one of the most unusual criminal cases in recent years. The father of four claims he was kidnapped by United States agents one year ago in Macedonia, carted off to a prison in Afghanistan, and accused of being an al-Qaida terrorist. The tress from his do may be able to confirm his story. Scientists at the Bavarian archive for geology in Munich are currently using a method called isotope analysis, which can search for trace elements such as sulphur, to roughly determine where in the world el-Masri has been in recent months. Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians University is world famous for the procedure -- in fact, isotope analysis has helped solve many difficult crimes in the past.


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[NYC]

1. This may prove interesting.

Except for this snag: "But no one here wants it to interfere with US-German rapprochement."

[aikido15]

3. yeah, that snag bugs me also....

Here is the original link to Der Spiegel...

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,341636,00.html

I thought this was so interesting, the whole article, the investigation techniques and all.

I am so waiting for the Bush regime to be held accountable for their crimes...Germany would be the place to see that happen because of their law of trying war criminals no matter where they are from...

fingers crossed!

[Megahurtz]

2. Bizzare!

But I'm not surprised. The U.S. has been kidnapping people like this for years. They do what they want, when they want.