Reply #2: German foreign minister departs for U.S. following arrest warrants in CIA kidnapping case [View All]

The Associated Press
Published: February 1, 2007

BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier left for the United States on Thursday for talks on the Middle East, one day after German prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 13 suspected CIA agents.

Steinmeier said he did not think U.S.-German anti-terrorism efforts would be complicated by the warrants, issued Wednesday by prosecutors investigating the alleged kidnapping of Lebanese-born German citizen Khaled al-Masri.

"No, I don't believe so," Steinmeier said in Berlin before his departure. "The fact of the arrest warrants itself is a matter for the justice system that we can't comment further on politically at the moment." ...

Munich prosecutors are seeking 13 people they believe to be CIA agents involved in seizing al-Masri. It is not clear whether they will ever be identified, since the names are believed to be CIA aliases, or how they could be returned to Germany for trial ...

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/01/europe/EU-GEN-Germany-US-Steinmeier.php

Starts soundin like Blair, Howard, and the rest of the Chimp's gang, then off to the US ... I'd guess he's being given a playbook ...