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I Am Not A State Secret-
KHALED EL-MASRI, a German citizen born in Lebanon, was a car salesman before he was detained in December 2003
ON NEW YEAR'S EVE in 2003, I was seized at the border of Serbia and Macedonia by Macedonian police who mistakenly believed that I was traveling on a false German passport. I was detained incommunicado for more than three weeks. Then I was handed over to the American Central Intelligence Agency and was stripped, severely beaten, shackled, dressed in a diaper, injected with drugs, chained to the floor of a plane and flown to Afghanistan, where I was imprisoned in a foul dungeon for more than four months.
Long after the American government realized that I was an entirely innocent man, I was blindfolded, put back on a plane, flown to Europe and left on a hilltop in Albania — without any explanation or apology for the nightmare that I had endured...
Discuss the ramifications of the US Government indiscriminately detaining subjects incommunicado.
Also, how many more times to how many more people do you think this has happened?
I Am Not A State Secret-
KHALED EL-MASRI, a German citizen born in Lebanon, was a car salesman before he was detained in December 2003
ON NEW YEAR'S EVE in 2003, I was seized at the border of Serbia and Macedonia by Macedonian police who mistakenly believed that I was traveling on a false German passport. I was detained incommunicado for more than three weeks. Then I was handed over to the American Central Intelligence Agency and was stripped, severely beaten, shackled, dressed in a diaper, injected with drugs, chained to the floor of a plane and flown to Afghanistan, where I was imprisoned in a foul dungeon for more than four months.
Long after the American government realized that I was an entirely innocent man, I was blindfolded, put back on a plane, flown to Europe and left on a hilltop in Albania — without any explanation or apology for the nightmare that I had endured...
Discuss the ramifications of the US Government indiscriminately detaining subjects incommunicado.
Also, how many more times to how many more people do you think this has happened?