The German’s cant be Serious?
We cant take this seriously can we?
Arrest Warrents issued for 13 CIA members
I can’t see our US marshals service or FBI agents handing over CIA agents.
Munich-based Bavarian senior state public prosecutor Christian Schmidt-Sommerfeld said in a statement Wednesday that the warrants had been issued in the last few days. He said the agents are being sought on suspicion of abducting and wrongfully imprisoning al-Masri as well as causing him grievous bodily harm. Al-Masri was allegely abducted in a case of the controversial CIA practice known as “extraordinary rendition,” which involves kidnapping terrorist suspects and flying them to third countries to be interrogated.
The prosecutor’s office refused to reveal the names of the people sought. However Schmidt-Sommerfeld said in a statement that “the personal details contained in the arrest warrants are, according to our current knowledge, aliases of CIA agents.” He added that, “further investigation will, among other things, concentrate on trying to determine the clear identities of the suspects.” Prosecutors did not state the nationalities of the suspects. However, according to German media reports, most of the suspects are resident in the US.
This is refreshing.
The case has strained US-German relations. However it is believed to be unlikely that the US would hand over suspects to be tried in Germany, as German arrest warrants are not valid in the US. Without the real names of the suspects, the warrants are in any case largely symbolic, commentators pointed out.