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Saturday, May 5th, 2007

An Outrage

This is just infuriating.

German counter-terrorist agents kidnapped an American citizen and secretly sent him to Afghanistan, where he was imprisoned and tortured for four months. And the whole time his wife and children had no idea where he was or what had happened to him.

And why? Because a unit chief “had a hunch” he was a terrorist. A hunch?

Well, the hunch was wrong. And when they found out this guy had no connection with any terrorist group, they kept it a secret so they wouldn’t “embarrass” the government. Of course, the man’s life is completely ruined, because people who knew him before are afraid to associate with him now.

This is unbelievable. Unforgivable.

Germany is supposed to be a democracy that respects human rights, for gods’ sake, not to mention one of our allies. To treat one of our citizens like this, on no evidence other than some random intelligence officer’s “hunch” is completely unacceptable. Isn’t that pushing the “act of war” line?

We should demand the intelligence office be turned over for trial and that damn unit shut down. If they refuse, we should toss their ambassadors out out of our country, kick the bastards off the UN Security Council…

Wait…I read the story wrong. It was a German citizen kidnapped and tortured by American counter terrorism agents.

Oh, well, that’s quite different….

Never mind.

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