The Berlin government says a German citizen of Afghan origin, who had been held by US authorities in Afghanistan since January, has been released.
The unnamed 41-year-old man was detained at a supermarket on a US military base near Kabul after US officials allegedly found him acting in a suspicious manner. The case sparked comparisons with a German of Turkish origin, Murat Kurnaz, who was held at the US military's Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba for more than four years without ever German citizen held by US in Afghanistan released ...
German citizen in Afghanistan held by US released ...
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German police raid radical Islam suspects ... being charged. Kurnaz was released in 2006 following pressure from the German government.
(Deutsche Welle)
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