Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Uh-oh


Found this at www.latimes.com upon returning to the hotel:

Germany orders arrest of 13 CIA operatives
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Times Staff Writer
9:50 AM PST, January 31, 2007


BERLIN -- A Munich court has ordered the arrest of 13 U.S. intelligence operatives in connection with the kidnapping and beating of a German citizen who was interrogated for five months at a secret prison in Afghanistan, prosecutors announced today.

The suspects belong to a CIA-sponsored team that allegedly flew Khaled Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, from Macedonia to Afghanistan in January 2004. Each of the accused, all but one of whom were identified only by aliases, were charged with kidnapping and causing serious bodily harm.

Well, we could send them to Gitmo. That would keep their testimony off the record and out of open court, which is the whole point of Gitmo in the first place, right? I think now I'll be able to sleep.

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