Germany knows nothing of alleged CIA murder plot

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Source: reuters

BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government said on Monday it knew nothing about a magazine report that the CIA had planned a secret operation to kill a German-Syrian in Hamburg linked to the September 11 attacks on U.S. targets.

The U.S. magazine Vanity Fair had reported that the CIA had in 2004 sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill Mamoun Darkazanli, who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al Qaeda.

January's edition of the magazine cited a source familiar with the program as saying the mission had been kept secret from the German government.
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Darkazanli has been accused by the United States of financing Osama bin Laden's network and has been blacklisted by the United Nations as being linked to al Qaeda.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100104/wl_nm/us_germany_cia

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