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> With probably no place in Germany that's more than 250km away from an US/UK military base, and the "extraordinary rendition" program in mind To which several
by mercurial 13y ago
> With probably no place in Germany that's more than 250km away from an US/UK military base, and the "extraordinary rendition" program in mind
To which several European governments, mostly the UK, but also Italy, happily cooperated. The other ones have been lucky enough not to be caught red-handed but I have little doubt that they knew perfectly what was going on (at best) or were actively providing support.
- pgeorgi 13y agoIt also happened on German soil (Ramstein Air Base is said to be involved) and to at least one German citizen (but not with Germany as a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri) - even if the German government wasn't actively involved, at least it wasn't able or willing to prevent that from happening here. Preventing the issue on formal grounds was probably the easiest way to avoid having to protect someone in Germany from the USA - which is obviously futile.