On December 31, 2003, a German national with Lebanese lineage by the name of Khaled el-Masri was allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents and shipped off to a prison in Afghanistan where he has was held for five months, tortured, then released without charges being brought against him because this was a case of mistaken identity.

If his story sounds familiar, it's because the usage of torture flights has been practiced repeatedly in George Bush's Global War on Terror™.

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