Webloggin » History on Khaled Al-Masri

Khaled Al-Masri claims that he was seized in Macedonia, flown to a secret jail in Afghanistan and tortured. Now he is suing, wants an apology from the United States and of course money. I did an extensive article on him earlier this month, Khaled Al-Masri, a Democrat’s Dream but a reader has forwarded some very interesting facts to me about al-Masri’s past. I would like to share some of this history with you, then you can decide for yourself if he is an innocent victim or a terrorist, as the United States believes.

World Politics Watch has an excellent article by John Rosenthal, which you can go read here. I will give you some highlights below, all emphasis is mine. If you don’t read all of this, please read the final paragraph.

“Munich to US: ‘Don’t Send Your CIA Thugs out into Europe’s Streets‘”. Thus ran the triumphant headline on the Spiegel Online’s English-language site a day after it became know that the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office had issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA employees presumed to have participated in the abduction of German citizen Khaled Al-Masri in early 2004. Just one day later, however, the headline had acquired a certain unintended irony as reports emerged that Masri himself had beaten up a social worker in his hometown of Neu-Ulm, leaving the man hospitalized for three days. The assault occurred on Monday, Jan. 29. According to a Feb. 2 report in the Südwest Presse newspaper, citing the local Neu-Ulm prosecutor’s office: “Masri is supposed to have pulled the man by the hair and thrown him against a wall. Then he threw a table at him, punched him in the face and stomped on him.”

The victim of the assault is the project manager of a worker retraining program in which Masri, who has long been unemployed, was ordered to take part by the local employment agency.

Mr. Rosenthal continues by informing readers that al-Masri was in other fights, one a few years earlier at a welfare office. Al-Masri cleared a desk, pushed the employee against the wall and threw a chair at him. Welfare???