We are in trouble people, big trouble. Our government is not respecting the rights of its people. We must get new leaders, leaders that care about us. Leaders that care about the world. This is our job as citizens. It seems we picked up a German guy drugged him, tortured him and kept him imprisoned in another country. Why you might ask, because he was unlucky enough to have the same name as someone else. What the hell! Also our leaders have been denying access by the red cross to prisoners. American credibility is at stake here people, we are supposed to be the city on the hill, we are supposed to be the good guys. Did someone forget to tell our president that?
“On December 31, 2003, I boarded a bus in Ulm, Germany for a holiday in Skopje, Macedonia. When the bus crossed the border … Macedonian officials confiscated my passport and detained me for several hours,” al-Masri said in the statement.
The next three weeks, he said, he was held in a hotel room and repeatedly questioned about his life at home, including his contacts and his mosque.
Al-Masri said that on Jan. 23, 2004, seven or eight Macedonian men entered the room, handcuffed and blindfolded him, placed him in a car and drove him to what he believes was an airfield.
“I was taken from the car, and led to a building where I was severely beaten by people’s fists and what felt like a thick stick. Someone sliced the clothes off my body, and when I would not remove my underwear, I was beaten again until someone forcibly removed them from me,” he said in the ACLU statement.
Al-Masri said he was then dressed in a diaper and a tracksuit and put in a belt with chains that attached to his wrists and ankles. He claims he was blindfolded, hooded and marched onto a plane, where he says he was thrown to the floor and his arms and legs were secured to the sides of the aircraft. He said he was then drugged into a state of near unconsciousness.