BERLIN - The German Defence Ministry rejected Monday a television news story claiming that US forces clapped the German commandant of Kabul International Airport in handcuffs for making an American plane wait.
A defence spokesman in Berlin said the account was untrue, and the German officer concerned denied that he had refused the US plane landing permission or that he had been arrested. ARD television said he was a colonel in the German air force, the Luftwaffe.
The South Asia bureau of ARD had claimed the German was arrested by US forces in April, not long after the 21 April departure of German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer from a visit to Kabul.
The officer was alleged to have refused a demand for immediate landing permission for a US plane. German forces, who had been in charge of all airport operations for two and a half years, handed over the facility 1 June to NATO command.
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