Parliament questions Germany’s quiet role in CIA abduction

THE German government’s role in the abduction of a 41-year-old unemployed shoe salesman by the CIA has been queried by the European Parliament.

The special committee investigating whether EU governments quietly cooperated with illegal US kidnapping of terror suspects heard evidence from Khaled El Masri in Strasbourg.

The Lebanese-born father-of-four disappeared for five months in December 2003. A German citizen who lived in the town of Ulm outside Munich, he claimed he was tortured and held in an Afghani jail.