Human Rights Court Concludes that CIA Tortured and Sodomized an Innocent German

“Denied justice in the United States, a German citizen has been vindicated by theEuropean Court of Human Rights, which concluded that American intelligence officials wrongly imprisoned and tortured him.

Car salesman Khaled el-Masri, 49, was abducted on December 31, 2003, by Macedonian authorities after a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst confused him with an al-Qaeda operative possessing a similar name. After 23 days, he was turned over to the CIA and “severely beaten, sodomized, shackled and hooded,” according to the court’s ruling. The analyst was never punished and was even promoted to head the CIA’s Global Jihad unit.

Masri was transferred to Afghanistan, where he spent more than four months in prison before the CIA agents realized their mistake. On May 28, 2009, he was flown to Albania and left by the side of a road.”

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