Germany to arrest US agents
2007-01-31 14:47
Berlin - Arrest warrants have been issued for 13 people in connection with the alleged CIA-orchestrated kidnapping of a German citizen, a Munich prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld said the warrants were issued in the last few days.
Munich prosecutors have previously said that they had received the names of several US secret agents believed to have been involved in the 2003 kidnapping from Spanish investigators but it was not immediately clear whether they were the people sought in the warrants.
Schmidt-Sommerfeld refused to provide further details, saying a statement would be made later in the day.
He said the warrants were issued in conjunction with the case of Khaled al-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent who says he was abducted in December 2003 at the Serbian-Macedonian border and flown by the CIA to a detention centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was abused.
Al-Masri says he was released in Albania in May 2004 after the CIA discovered they had the wrong person.
- AP