Witness Says He Told Officials of Masri Arrest
From Times Wire Reports
New evidence has emerged that German authorities may have known in early 2004 of the disappearance of Khaled Masri, a German citizen who says he was kidnapped by the CIA.
Wolf-Dietrich Mengel, a telecom manager working in Macedonia at the time, said he telephoned the German Embassy there in January 2004 to say he had heard of the arrest.
The testimony challenged the German government’s insistence that it learned of Masri’s abduction only at the end of May 2004. Germany denies being complicit in the affair.
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