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German official knew about CIA rendition

The German intelligence agency is admitting that it knew about the rendition by the US of a German citizen about two years ago, media reports say.

A Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) official has told a parliamentary committee that he was told of the arrest of Kuwaiti-born German Khaled el-Masri in early January 2004.

The new special parliamentary committee was set up to examine the role and activities of the BND as part of the war on terrorism and the el-Masri case is one of the iss...

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