el-masri

In April 2004, CIA Director George Tenet was told by his staff that El-Masri was being wrongfully detained.

If you're arguing that the German judiciary had influence over the fate of Khaled El-Masri then I'm not sure how the argument is meant to hang together.

After what WikiLeaks revealed about Khalid El-Masri[1] it would be a poor choice.

Shortly before el-Masri was released, in May 2004 the US ambassador to Germany informed the government for the first time of his detention.

Their processes are set up to shift blame, not to locate discrete problems that trace back to discrete decisions.) This is why Khalid El-Masri (See qeorge's comment) can never face his accuser.

It is not unlikely that Assange had some hint that something like what was done to people like Khalid El-Masri was going on, and it was through his acts that this was revealed.

Testimony from Khaled El-Masri argued that to the contrary, the information published by Wikileaks exposed the atrocities to which he was subjected and has served as important evidence in his pursuit of justice.

* According to a December 4, 2005, article in the Washington Post, CIA agents discussed whether they should remove El-Masri from Macedonia in an extraordinary rendition.

I'm not sure the protection of the German state is something the US will care about: Khalid El-Masri (born June 29, 1963) is a German citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian Police, and handed-over to the U.

After El-Masri held hunger strikes, and was detained for four months in the "Salt Pit", the CIA finally admitted his arrest and torture were a mistake and released him.

Going off the 2011 cables [0] they were spying on various people they weren't meant to be, there were one or two things that look war crimes to me but who knows technically and a few gems like "Der Spiegel reported that one of the cables showed that the US had placed pressure on Germany not to pursue the 13 suspected CIA agents involved in the 2003 abduction of Khalid El-Masri, a German citizen".

The decision to do so was made by the head of the al Qaeda division of the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center, on the basis of "a hunch" that El-Masri was involved in terrorism; his name was similar to Khalid al-Masri, strongly suspected as a terrorist.* I can't think of a worse way to completely ruin an innocent man's life.

Although when time came for the Soviet Agent Yasser Arafat El-Masri (arabic for "the Wise Egyptian") to choose a name, he picked "Palestinians", no doubt adding further insult to Jews by adopting the name Palestine to steal the identity of the Jews, and to fake history.