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May 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Masri, 48, will have his case heard by a panel of 17 judges on Wednesday in Strasburg after eight years of inconclusive efforts to sue CIA in the US courts.
He complains that he was handed over to CIA agents in Macedonia after being arrested by Macedonian police in December 2003 and locked for 23 days in a hotel in Skopje, capital city of Macedonia, over alleged ties with terrorist organizations.
Masri was beaten, stripped, blindfolded and mistreated by CIA agents and then transferred by a secret CIA flight to an Afghanistan prison, where he remained in detention until May 2004.
The Macedonian government has denied handing over Masri to CIA, but a former senior minister of Macedonian government has provided testimony, confirming Masri’s accounts, according to one of Masri’s lawyer.
“It confirms that Macedonia did detain him, that they did so at the request of the CIA, that el-Masri was held for a time, after which this senior minister said to the US government ‘you’re going to have to come get him, or we’ll have to let him go’ and that the CIA then brought a plane and took him away,” said Masri’s lawyer, James Goldston.
Masri’s lawyers say he has never received an apology or compensation or explanation from Washington and his legal actions to bring people behind his illegitimate detention to justice were futile.
However, in a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on December 6, 2005, former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had accepted that the United States had made an error in Masri’s case.
The German businessman was misidentified as another man, Khaled al-Masri, who was suspected of having the main role in conducting 9/11 attacks.
Masri was finally flown on board a CIA-chartered aircraft to a military airbase in Albania and then driven in a car and dumped on a mountain road.
Lawyers and human rights groups say that the court can put on record Masri’s suffering as well as order the Macedonian government to pay financial compensation.
“He wants the Macedonian and other governments to make clear they were responsible for what happened to him,” said Goldston.
AO/MA
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