Not that it comes as a surprise. It’s just a logical forward step in the German media driven hate campaign against the U.S.:
“Munich to US: Don’t Send Your CIA Thugs out to Europe’s Streets” is the headline of SPIEGEL ONLINE, taken from Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). Both media outlets have a long history of anti-American polemic “reporting”.
The headline and the accompanying articles in SPON and SZ refer to 13 arrest warrants issued by Munich prosecutors against CIA agents in the case of the alleged abduction of Khaled Al-Masri. We have frequently quoted in our blog the investigation of John Rosenthal into the questionable activities and connections of Al-Masri. (Historians know: it’s not the first time the U.S. secret intelligence service meddled into German affairs…)
Al-Masri reaches almost a saint status in the German media’s reporting (with very few exceptions) – after all, he is considered a victim of the evil American empire and it’s stromtroopers. Oops, mistyped: should of course read “thugs”.
You may throw up now…
Additional commentary from Ray: The most appalling aspect of this is that the holier-than-thou European governments issuing these arrest warrants almost certainly knew of and collaborated with the CIA’s covert action program of rendition from the very beginning. Furthermore, the German government has known about the Masri situation since at least 2004 and chose to remain silent until now. These warrants are little more than cynical moral grandstanding to win points with the electorate from a government that has repeatedly demonstrated that supporting human rights and confronting real “thugs” in places like Iran and Sudan take a backseat to German trade interests.
As usual, the German media would rather focus on bashing the United States. After all, they wouldn’t want to dig too deeply into the dark dealings of their ideological allies in the former Social Democrat-led Schroeder government. Once again: Germany good. America bad.
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