German Says He Questioned CIA Action (Otto Schily)

BERLIN, Dec. 7 -- Germany asked the United States why the CIA mistakenly detained a German citizen and imprisoned him in Afghanistan for months, but the response was inadequate, Germany's former interior minister Otto Schily said Wednesday.

The Washington Post reported Sunday that Daniel R. Coats, then the U.S. ambassador to Germany, had told Schily in May 2004 that Khaled Masri had been wrongfully held as a suspected terrorist and asked Schily to keep quiet about it.


The report has fueled a political storm in Germany, heaping pressure on Schily and the government of former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to show they followed up on the wrongful detention of a German citizen.

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