John Rosenthal presents the latest developments in the Al-Masri case: the Masri assault and the investigation into the four journalists who published BKA leaks connecting Masri to the 9/11 investigation.
Al-Masri – you will remember – is considered the innocent victim of a sinister CIA abduction plot. His case led to uncontrolled outburst of anti-Americanism in the German media. John Rosenthal:
According to his well-known account, Masri, following a quarrel with his wife, is supposed, on the spur of the moment, to have decided to spend New Years in the strife-ridden Balkan country. Just how an unemployed person — and one with a wife and four children no less — was able to afford acting on such a whim is not obvious. Adding to the mystery, Masri is reported to have been carrying several thousand euros in cash when he was picked up by Macedonian authorities at the Serbian-Macedonian border. (…)
(The) Hamburg Public Prosecutors Office confirmed that it was investigating four journalists — one from the Financial Times Deutschland and three from the weekly Stern — suspected of “aiding and abetting in the betrayal of state secrets”: namely, pertaining to Khaled Al-Masri. As touched upon in my previous WPW report on Masri, in September the two publications, citing a confidential memorandum of Germany’s Federal Office for Criminal Investigations (BKA), revealed that Masri had been “known as an adherent of a fundamentalist line in Islam and a proponent of military jihad” since “at the latest October 2003.” October 2003 was three months before Masri was seized by the Macedonian border police and allegedly turned over to American agents.
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