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Khalid El-Masri
From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's on-record words
Based on 2 recorded interviews · Last updated
German grocery-store owner; rendered by the CIA in 2003 because his name, Khaled the Egyptian, happened to match that of a different Khaled the Egyptian whom a sister agency had reported was traveling to Albania to bomb the U.S. embassy. Tortured in Cairo to within an inch of his life. Released when Egyptian interrogators concluded he was the wrong man. Per John Kiriakou, returned to Germany with a waist-length beard and a Quran, telling a reporter: 'All I want to do is kill Americans.'
Khalid El-Masri is a German grocery-store owner who was rendered by the CIA in 2003 on the basis of a name collision and tortured nearly to death in Egypt before being released without explanation. Per John Kiriakou, the case is one of two canonical illustrations, alongside Maher Arar’s, of the post-9/11 rendition program rendering the wrong man.[1][2]
The bus ticket
Per Kiriakou: “One night he gets in a fight with his wife and he’s like, ‘Ah, fuck you.’ He’s so mad he walks out, buys a bus ticket. He’s going to go visit his brother in Montenegro. The name El-Masri, it’s not really a name. It just means ‘the Egyptian.’ Misri is Arabic for Egypt. So his name is Khaled the Egyptian.”[1]
The name collision
As El-Masri’s bus crossed Serbia en route to Montenegro, a sister agency informed the CIA “that there’s this Egyptian guy named Khaled, and he’s going to blow up the American embassy in Tirana, Albania. And we’re like, ‘Wait a minute. There’s another guy named Khaled and he’s Egyptian, and he’s on a bus going in the general direction of Albania. It must be him.’” The CIA asked Serbia to stop the bus, grab him, and turn him over. They did.[3][4]
Cairo
The CIA sent him to Egypt: “they torture him to within an inch of his life. And they’re like, ‘Yeah, this is the wrong guy. This guy’s just named Khaled. He happens to be Egyptian.’”[4]
After release
Per Kiriakou: “When he gets out of the torture chamber in Cairo to return to Germany, he’s got a beard down to his waist and he’s clutching a copy of the Quran. And a German reporter asked him, ‘What are you going to do now?’ And he said, ‘All I want to do is kill Americans.’”[5]
Sourced from John Kiriakou's on-record public statements. See his profile for the full body of his interviews, podcast appearances, and short-form video.
