80.
Welcomes the excellent work of the German Parliament inquiry committee and
expresses its full support for the continuation of that committee's work;
81.
Thanks Munich Public Prosecutor Martin Hofmann for his testimony to the Temporary
Committee and applauds all ongoing judicial inquiries in Germany;
82.
Deplores the fact that German authorities at least had knowledge of the illegal abduction
of German citizen Khaled El-Masri, who gave testimony to the Temporary Committee,
and requests the German Parliament inquiry committee to examine further and clarify
the role of German agents in this case;
83.
Condemns the extraordinary rendition of Turkish citizen and resident of Germany Murat
Kurnaz, who gave testimony to the Temporary Committee and who was arrested in
Pakistan in November 2001, transferred to the US units across the border in
Afghanistan by the Pakistani police on no legal basis and with no judicial assistance,
and finally flown to Guantánamo at the end of January 2002, from where he was
released on 24 August 2006 without charge, having been tortured in all the locations
where he had been held;
84
Points out that, according to confidential institutional information, the German
Government did not accept the US offer, made in 2002, to release Murat Kurnaz from
Guantánamo; notes that on many occasions since 2002, Murat Kurnaz's lawyer was told
by the German Government that it was impossible to open negotiations with the US
Government on his release because Murat Kurnaz was a Turkish citizen; notes that all
investigations concluded, as early as the end of October 2002, that Murat Kurnaz posed
no terrorist threat;
85.
Regrets the fact that Murat Kurnaz was interrogated twice, in 2002 and in 2004, by
German officials at Guantánamo, where he was detained subject to neither formal
charge nor trial and without judicial assistance; regrets the fact that German officials
denied him any assistance and were only interested in questioning him;
86.
Fully supports the investigation launched by the public prosecutor in Potsdam,
transferred to the Public Prosecutor in Tübingen/Karlsruhe on 25 October 2006, into
unknown perpetrators in order to establish whether Murat Kurnaz was ill-treated in
Afghanistan by German soldiers belonging to the Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK), the
German army's special operational forces, before being sent to Guantánamo;
87.
Notes that during his interrogations Murat Kurnaz was confronted with details from his
personal life; notes that this gives rise to the suspicion that even before he left the
country Murat Kurnaz was the subject of surveillance of a closeness which can
normally only be provided by domestic intelligence services;
88.
Appreciates the German Government's initiative in January 2006 which led to the
release of Murat Kurnaz;
89.
Condemns the extraordinary rendition of the German citizen Mohammed Zammar,
arrested without formal charge on 8 December 2001 at Casablanca airport in Morocco
and detained and tortured in Morocco and Syria;
90.
Notes that, according to a confidential institutional source, on 26 November 2001 the
German Federal Criminal Police Office provided details of Mohammed Zammar's
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