Reuters: Did German citizen adbucted by US receive payment to keep quite?

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German abduction case gets murkier: did US pay?
By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent

BERLIN (Reuters) - German politicians expressed surprise on Thursday at reported U.S. comments that Washington had apologized and paid money to a German citizen it abducted to Afghanistan and held for months as a terrorist suspect.


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"That is an additional admission. You don't pay money unless you're conscious of making a serious mistake," he told Reuters.

In a U.S. lawsuit against ex- CIA director George Tenet and other unnamed officials, Masri is seeking compensation of at least $75,000, plus "punitive and exemplary damages" and legal fees.

"If the Americans say he already received money...then that's a question that is obviously significant to this legal case and I assume it will be cleared up in the United States," Stroebele said.

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